Hornady or aimpoint bolt handle ball

[mooner]

Do to a injury on my hand I was wondering if anyone has use these add on bolt balls. They are to make the handle easier to get to and work with thanks for any info you guys

 

[hm1996]

Many years ago, I built a target rifle on a 1903A3 action for HP XTC match practice. The 03 action was not nearly as slick as my mod 70 match rifles so decided it needed a bit more leverage on bolt handle.

Annealed and drilled a hole in a 1" steel ball bearing, ground the bolt knob off and soft soldered the enlarged ball on stub, thus extending length by close to 3/4".

I had closeup pictures of the bolt but cannot locate at the moment. Will search later and post if I can locate. Had to grind bottom of ball flat and stipple for non-slip surface.

Trigger finger extends directly under the ball now and works great for 10 shot string in 60 second rapid fire time limit.

Finished product:

Compared to match rifle bolt below:

Edit to add bolt closeup pics.

Regards,
hm

 

[mooner]

Man that is really nice looking rifle. And that's really cool how the handle came out too. That's good information to know too