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<blockquote data-quote="PrairieGhost" data-source="post: 403443" data-attributes="member: 704">I walked in to our local sport shop one day and they had a beat up old bolt action Steven's.&nbsp; The extractor was missing and the last owner must have used it as a pogo stick in a gravel pit.&nbsp; I have never seen a muzzle that abused.&nbsp; It was marked $ 199.&nbsp; I told them throw in a set of RCBS dies and I'll give you $150.&nbsp; So off I go with my first 30-30.I found an extractor and extra magazine online.&nbsp; I cut a 1/4 inch off the barrel and recrowned.&nbsp; I drilled and tapped a single hole in the reciever and mounted a short mount with one locktite screw and epoxy under the mount.&nbsp; I mounted a small cheap red dot on it and even though the bolt feels like it runs through a corrugated culvert the bullets surprisingly stay in 2.5 inches at 100 yards.&nbsp; I suspect the limitation is my eyes and not the gun.&nbsp; The nice thing about the magazine not being tubular is that you can load pointy high ballistic coefficient bullets in it.&nbsp; One grandson used it to shoot a doe in youth season.&nbsp; I loaded 130g bullets at 2700 fps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="PrairieGhost, post: 403443, member: 704"] I walked in to our local sport shop one day and they had a beat up old bolt action Steven's. The extractor was missing and the last owner must have used it as a pogo stick in a gravel pit. I have never seen a muzzle that abused. It was marked $ 199. I told them throw in a set of RCBS dies and I'll give you $150. So off I go with my first 30-30. I found an extractor and extra magazine online. I cut a 1/4 inch off the barrel and recrowned. I drilled and tapped a single hole in the reciever and mounted a short mount with one locktite screw and epoxy under the mount. I mounted a small cheap red dot on it and even though the bolt feels like it runs through a corrugated culvert the bullets surprisingly stay in 2.5 inches at 100 yards. I suspect the limitation is my eyes and not the gun. The nice thing about the magazine not being tubular is that you can load pointy high ballistic coefficient bullets in it. One grandson used it to shoot a doe in youth season. I loaded 130g bullets at 2700 fps. [/QUOTE]

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