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vintage antique sleeved 40x 222 pics

anybody help me age this rifle and tell me how to know if it was smithed by Hart or just has Hart bbl,,

I will dissemble rifle and get pics of insides latter,,have barrel soaking and some 52 Bergers loaded with 19.5 H4198 in Lapua brass to try,,throat seems long so it may need a new barrel but we will see,,


















 
I have a similar sleeved BR rile from the 70's. Hart barrel. Ferguson smithed it. SHBF
20.8 of 4198 with 52gr Sierra's is the best load.
Never have been able to reach the lands....they throated them long.
I've even tried the longest bullets to reach the lands and it will not do it. These were recent bullets that the rifle will not shoot due to the twist and heavy
bullet combo. No desire to shoot them just wondered where the lands started.
Still shoots superbly for my purposes and goals.
 
It was built by Robert Hart & son in Nescopeck. It looks like a Hart #4 action also built by them. They were relation to Clyde Hart who made Hart barrels so it will be a Hart barrel. Matt
 
pic of back of action and trigger looks sleeved 700 or 40X





the sleeve has 3 action screws,,the rear screw is short and only goes through bedding block and threads through sleeve and into action,,the middle screw goes through stock bedding block and screws through sleeve into action,,front screw goes through stock bedding block and screws into sleeve and does not touch barrel.





the stock has a full length aluminum bedding block from tang to front of sleeve and was skim bedded,,there is no recoil lug but the stock is bedded at the tang so the rear of action would serve as a lug,,

with the sleeve making 100 % contact with bedding block and 3 screws it should be a solid stress free platform,,

I am already trying to decide on another 222 barrel or maybe a 6-223 or 6-204,,






 
Why not trying to cut the existing thread , rethread and rechamber with a more modern reamer design with the appropriate throat? Kind of giving a new youth to that hold beast and keeping it "vintage":-)
 
Sweet vintage rig. I have some like that in BR stocks in my vintage collection. Get a new barrel chambered in a modern 222 and have fun with it. Itll be a very accurate sporter.
 
after more lookin and studying it looks like it was a blued repeater action and had a safety at one time,,,there is a s/n stamped on the sleeve would that match the s/n that is on the action inside the sleeve,,,if so it has no prefix and is in the 6,4xx,xxx range,,

I have an A prefix 700 that was new in `75 I think but could have been used then,anybody know when 6,000,000 s/n would have been made,,probably Model 700 since it is repeater???
 
had one like it -- mid 73-74 build

R. W. Hart, Nescopeck, pa built it ( Bob Hart brother of Clyde Hart) the two that started the Hart bbl business,
Bob bored the blanks and Clyde (Lafayette, nY) button rifled them and turned down then hear treated.

later Clyde and Jerry (his son) took over the total operation.

that should be a very accurate 222 shoot it with 53 Sierra match and 20.5-21.0 gr of imr4198 also try H4198, as neither is the same as imr of the 70's - seat to jump .010-.020 do not jam.

mine would go into the .100's when I did my job

Bob
 
My 40X is numbered 36,6xx and is a late 1966 vintage triple deuce. I realize that doesn't help much but it's a start.
Todd
 
That is a 40XBBR stock, usually used on the LV 40X of the day. The sleeve was popular for the aforsaid reasons. It appears to be bedded well. You may be very happy with it as is. i would suggest that if you have it worked on, Hart Rifle barrels in Lafayette (Apulia) NY is more consistent than RW...

I have not been disapointed in anything done by Jack Sutton or Jim Hart at Hart Rifle barrels.

snert
 
I have a friend that shoot a 222 for years, one day someone asked how many rounds had been run through it. He claimed that after looking at all the receipts for Hodgdon 322 he had bought and totaling the grians and dividing the grains per shot, it had over 18,000 shoots through it. the ugliest gun I have ever seen. It had no recoil lug only a horse shoe nail driven behind and touching the tang. It had a real ugly black laminated stock and had the barrel set back once after he had shoot it for a long time. Take care of yours and your kids will be shooting after you are gone.
 

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