Question regarding a custom action?

[Philly]

Maybe the stamping is no.2L (long action)? Looks like one. Curious what the boltface diameter is.

It's magnum bolt face

 

[Philly]

As to an extraction cam, you can’t see all of the action and bolt handle slot in the pictures. There may be a cam that acts on the corner of the bolt handle. You can’t see what you can’t see. It’d be interesting if the OP posted a picture of that area.

 

[Philly]

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There's no camming around the bolt handle

 

[WSnyder]

There's no camming around the bolt handle

It looks to me like there is. Unless it’s an illusion there’s an angle there.

 

[gunsandgunsmithing]

It looks to me like there is. Unless it’s an illusion there’s an angle there.
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Maybe...It's not much but it doesn't take a lot either.

 

[Philly]

It looks to me like there is. Unless it’s an illusion there’s an angle there.
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Yes! You are absolutely correct

 

[ScottVA]

The cocking cam helix looks very shallow. It can't have much pin fall, can it? unless it's just the picture.

 

[WSnyder]

The cocking cam helix looks very shallow. It can't have much pin fall, can it? unless it's just the picture.

I’d agree, doesn’t look like much at all.

 

[Philly]

The cocking cam helix looks very shallow. It can't have much pin fall, can it? unless it's just the picture.

Is this what you mean?

 

[AlNyhus]

Yes, the cam angle is at the very bottom of the cut. There's no matching angle at the root of the handle...just a 90 degree corner. The RFD's use a similar arrangement except it hits the cam angle at the top of the receiver like the 700 Mike posted a pic of.

In this pic, the original handle is at the bottom and the new handle with a matching angle to the RFD receiver is at the top:

The new handle and matching cam angle. Lots of mechanical extraction:

All work done by the late Stan Ware following the infamous 'Red Hammer Incident' .

 

[WSnyder]

The cocking cam helix looks very shallow. It can't have much pin fall, can it? unless it's just the picture.

Approximating measurements using the pictures the cocking cam depth is ~.216”. Allowing for clearance between cocking piece and bottom of cam in fired position max pin fall will be less than .216”.

Let’s see how close I am if we can get the OP to actually measure it

 

[Philly]

Approximating measurements using the pictures the cocking cam depth is ~.216”. Allowing for clearance between cocking piece and bottom of cam in fired position max pin fall will be less than .216”.

Let’s see how close I am if we can get the OP to actually measure it

its about .225 lol

 

[Philly]

its about .225 lol

but what's .009 between friends. lol

 

[ebb]

Al what is the infamous Red Hammer Incident? Sounds like a good story lurking somewhere in the past.

 

[WSnyder]

Wasn’t the Snake gun trials and tribulations written up in PS? Can’t recall if the hammer incident was included there or if that was on BRC