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Well made a little progress on her today , fit the barrel to the action no chamber no cartridge guide or extractor cut but a little closer.
Looks pretty heavy but the large bore relieves weight not really to forward heavy. Haven’t decided how long to finish at yet.

Roy when I said would either be a rotor or a single shot this is what I meant might wind up A ss 99?

Purchased a fixture to secure the action to a mill table for the snap ring cut I hope. Now need to find a few more new style rotor springs.

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That's going to be AWESOME in power. The baddest 99 ever. What's your thinking on the wood?

What barrel weight/contour is that? #3?

The contour is something I did from an unturned blank. The process took about 5 hours and is less than perfect but runs out like a laser in the lathe. Guessing is close to a 5 contour

It is nice to see this coming together!

Nice ,,,,,,,will a 350 legend fit in the receiver or is it a shade longer ?

The 350 is based on 223 Remington and has a smaller case rim would be pretty difficult to make it run.

Is the "problem" with the 350 legend round in the rotary mag, would it run in a clip gun?

I doubt if the extractor would engage the rim being such a small diameter.

aye, thanks never thought about that part of the equation.

She is fully funtional now, feeds fine. Have a few minor fitting issues left and then make her pretty.

Chris, this has made my day. I believe this is the first Savage 99 in 450 Bushmaster that is completed. I can't wait to hear how it shoots.

Will find out tomorrow, had a base with me today that came from the donor rifle , planned to scope it bore sight and be ready for tomorrow. A leupold base that the rear reing screws were not square to the point it was easily visable with the naked eye. First I had seen that.

I figured Roy would beet me to it with a rebored rifle? Maybe he has?

I wouldn't take it from you Chris! LOL I've been busy with other things.Chief amongst them getting a generator for the whole house. You know, boring stuff.

I am excited about your 450 and Loggah's 414 Supermag.

Oh, I like it. A double diamond DL.

Will you blue the barrel?

What scope?

I really was not worried, good luck with the generator.

CTW

You and Don are killing me as I crawl through manzanita thickets on my knees on bear trails wishing for a true big bore!!

That is coming out real nice. A thumper for sure, amazing work. One unique rifle.

Looking sharp, that barrel looks good left in the white !

Chris and Loggah make it hard for a fella not to lay awake at night in a puddle of sweat, dreaming about big bears and big bores! Maybe even trips to Africa!

"tommorow" is Today! How'd it shoot!?!

Nice follow-though Chris! I got to see a video clip of the feed, slick as all get-out!! This is really exceptional re-imagining of the 99 rotary action!

Jeff
I was only able to send 10 rounds down range, cleaning between rounds to do the break in thing. I shot a 3 round group and was not really impressed. Using hornady black that is suposed to be the go to. The scope I was using is unknown to me so I need to rectify that for the next outing. This time I will shoot some groups without cleaning and see what happens. Hopefully next weekend.

And more details about what You did to achieve the feed, please!!

That and what did you do to solve the rotor retaining clip machining?

How was recoil?

... I know, right?

..I thought all tinkerbells were chatty by nature, but this guy? He must be working all the time.

Hes not enlightening you guys with his hard earned knowledge!!!

Just been busy with my real job.

Jeff feeding is not complete as far as I am concerned, it looks slick but in slow mo there is a hick up. The round hangs up on the extractor and the cut off. Feeding/forcing it pushes the extractor over and feeds up since I do not have great parts bins caution is required.

Started 243 DL placed 284 rotor and cartridge guide, changed feeding ramp slightly and that is all. The snap ring groove required fixture and key slott cutter purchase but most importantly the riight c&c mill with someone who knows how to program it.

The new style rotor spring seems like a very hard part to find.

Sometimes it's hard to beat an old fashioned Bridgeport for "once and done" jobs.

Snap ring set up

Problem solved, shoots like she should now. The Extractor in the 243 donor rifle was so stiff it hung up feeding and still contacted the case when the action was in battery. Straight wall case pushed to the side provides poor accuracy.
Also fixed feeding after one ruined extractor of course. She weighs 8lb 10oz with the leu

Good job !!!! i just sent my barrel off to JES a few days ago. When i get it back i have a bunch of fine tuning to do. Looks like your all set!!!

Great bit of detective work narrowing down what was going on with the extractor Chris!! That's a new one for me, I never would have imagined the extractor could deflect the case when its was fully chambered.

Looks like all the Thumpers are getting Twitterpated! at the same time!

I'll take it!

What a great report and great shooting.

Don looking forward to your project, this ammo says 250 grain pill 2200 at the muzzle +4.1 at 100 yds 0 at 200 yds -19.3 at 300. Not a real flat shooter but probably point and shoot out to 230

Looking forward to trying some 300 grain ammo if it becomes available again.

This is great. I can never kick the desire for a true big bore lever action.

Why did you go with 450BM over say a .458 Socom? Did you look at the .308 based AR cartridges? Just trying to learn for a possible project. I imagine factory ammo was a consideration?

CTW did alot of thinking on this, but I'm sure rim diameter was a critical issue for reliable 99 extraction