300 H&H /Rem 721 question

Todd M.

Todd M.

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I ran into a Rem 721 in 300H&H recently in a local gun shop. The wood is tired and the bluing shot, but it was mechanically tight and all there, including an old Leupold with a bronze colored bell. My question concerns the compatability of the 300H&H bolt face with other cartridges. The limited reading I have done says that some of the weatherby cartridges share this bolt face, and it seems like the .264/.338 magnums do too.
1)Can someone tell me for sure which cartridges share this bolt?

2)Can you verify that the 721 action is compatible with aftermarket stocks for the 700 (inletting to make fit?) or are there suppliers for 721 drop-in stocks?

The rifle was priced at about $200, cheap enough I was thinking about my first custom.

Thanks! Todd
 
The 300 H&H is a most grand cartridge. If I were in your shoes, I would buy it for that kind of jingle and leave it as a 300 H&H!

Clean it up and primp it to your taste and shoot it as is.

Can't help you with stock answers, but the 300 H&H/ 375 H&H is the parent for ALL the modern mags. except the 378/460 Weatherby's and the newest round of Short and Ultra maggies.

.264 Win., .338 Win. 300 Wby. 300 Win, 7mm Rem & Wby's ........... the list goes on and on.

Why stick with 300 H&H?

The rifle/cartridge as you have found it is known to shoot the full range of bullet weights accurately. The newer offspring only do so here and there at best. Now they (its children) shoot the heavier bullets well and certainly faster (at the expense of much more powder) but not the light ones.

IE. The H&H are classics that shoot more econonically and with more versatility than their offspring.

Three 44s
 
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I just restocked a 721-06 rebored to 35 Whelen with a 700 BDL stock and had to trim out for the safety and put some spacers under the front and rear actions screw between the stock and floorplate, it seems to work good for me I will be bed the spacers and floorplate to the stock to fill some of the spaces there.

AWS
 
I'd like to find a 300 H&H someday........when I have some extra cash of course that I haven't thrown away on some other firearm. /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/confused1.gif
 
about all the standard mags, 264, 7mm,7mm STW, 300win,8mm rem.,338, 358 STA,375,458 all share this bolt as do the 257,270,7mm,300,340 weatherbys.
RR
 
If it is 200 bucks, I would buy it and restore. Leave it a 300 H&H. It will do anything you would ever need it for.
 
I've got a 300 H&H and it has perfromed very well for me over the years on deer elk and moose. This round has a fine reputation for accuracy and is one of my most accurate rifles (with the right load). I can get 180 grain bullets up to 3000 fps, how much more do I need? The drawback to this round is its length which requires a long action. Personally, I don't see what the fuss is about. The extra bolt throw has never slowed me down. By the way, I have friends who are building custom rifles in this caliber.
 
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Called the store last Friday and it was sold, dang-it!



Well, don't feel so bad about it. For $200 it would have been alright.

While the H&H ".30 Super" (what it was originally called) is a good and accurate cartridge, it does, just slightly better, than the .30-06. And, it has that long, slow tapered cartridge, the one that NEEDS to seat on the belt because of its unusual shape. That "Belted Magnum" identity is what got all the other Belted Magnums started, when most of the others didn't really need to have the belts after all.

There's about the same performance jump between the .30-06 and the .300 H&H as there is between the H&H and the .300 Win. Mag. There's about the same increase between the Winchester Mag and the .300 Weatherby.

So in lieu of being able to get that .300 H&H, if you still feel the need to go up in power and velocity, by grabbing a .300 Win. Mag, you can go up 2 steps instead of just one.
 
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