LET'S TRY THIS AGAIN, 84M Short Action Bolt Swap, Simple, or Individually Fit?

I just got on here to ask you what scope and rings you used on the .204, as I'm looking at the Talley silver low rings as best option so far, and I found a Leupold VX3 2.5-8x36 in silver used. Sounds like we are most definitely on the same page here. The one thing I won't be changing is slings. A friend's wife used to help Dick Murray build leather products, and he talked me into trying one of his leather quick set slings. It's quite handy. I'm putting one on the Custom Montana also, and although Mark said Lilja shows 9 and 12 twist only for the Kimber contour barrel in stainless, I talked to Lilja today and told them we really need an 11 twist in .204 even if we've got to have a .17 cal rebored to .204 11 twist, and they said they're good to go on it even if they have to make one fresh, so looks like all is a go once I either get a Montana short action stock bought or just buy another complete gun and rob one. Also, wonder if we could do some swapping on chrono testing results? Maybe I send you a few of my factory loads and pay you to ship me a few of your pet loads so we can compare the two in your .204 Montana and my .700 Sporter just for ball parkish idea of velocity difference? I may have Mark put my 700 Sporter in an EH8 with lightweight Talley rings and go to a different scope, as I don't like the current one, and am considering the cost velocity wise versus weight to have him cut the barrel from 24 down to 22" also once the "Montana" project is up and killing.
 
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That would not workout well for a couple of reasons. Sending loaded ammo through the mail or by another method is chancy at best. Then there is the problem of Chronograph. Our Lab Radar will not track 17 or 20 caliber rounds.
 
All good, but as a dealer, FYI for you, US Mail TOTAL no no on ammo, but UPS is fine. They just want you to mark the box ORMD and ship it ground so if it ends up on a plane it's not your fault. Hopefully my chrono will pick up the .204, but who knows. I've never used it for anything but revolver load testing except to compare 22LR velocity between my JW-15 and some revolvers.
 
I will be happy to list give my load info if already haven't. The only bullets I use and have loads for are the 34gr. Nosler hp, 35gr. Berger hp, 37gr. CRT hp, 37gr. Blackhole hp, and the 45gr. Hornady sp.
I don't have any loads for 40gr. bullets. I'm not a fan of plastic tip bullets, but they sure do look pretty. LOL!
 
I forgot about this, but just now got back to it and checked out the Sako. I really don't want quite that short of a barrel, and won't be going back to the 22-250 for my purposes, but man is that a nice rifle. They actually make it with the right bolt face in .223, so I could rebarrel to .204, but I'd have a lot more in it than the Kimber custom project. Taklked to a Sako dealer who'll custom order the .223 to rebarrel, but even at best price as a dealer I'd have over $4K in it just with the price of the rifle and rebarrel to 22" 11 twist .204, and it would be light, but not as light as the Montana. I'm actually rolling the idea around at the moment, but man would it be nice to find a Montana in .204, or even .223 to rebarrel.

https://choose.sako.fi/usa/code/JRSCF202312R8
 
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I know where a Montana .223 is. I sent you a private message yesterday, check your messages and message me back.
 


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