Originally Posted by
Big Uncle
Did you ever make a decision? I for one would really like to see your results.
Still working on it, kinda. I definitely need to try my hand at a takedown, but I have other projects in line ahead of it.
I did change my mind a bit - the rifles I'm building for my wife and I will be large enough projects within themselves, so I bought another Ruger Hawkeye All-Weather as a potential donor, and I do have this CZ .416Rigby action that would be suitable (so terribly sad this thing is blued).
I'm favoring these actions, despite their CRPF design, over the Rem 700 because I believe the integral recoil lug on the action will be easiest to play with - I can bed the lug solid into the rear half of the stock, put a mating plate with an indexing pin at the front of the action and collared around the barrel threads, then let them lock in place. With a Rem style recoil lug, the lug wouldn't be supported not secured to the action when the barrel was removed, so I think it just invites problems.