Wanted Vanguard .240 Weatherby bolt

[wildcat westerner]

I have a friend with too many rifles, which includes a Weatherby Vanguard in .240, with a heavy 28 inch custom barrel, but can't find the bolt for it. Where do I start looking, aside from the factory?

Thanks for your attention in this matter.

Gene So

 

[martinakl]

That is a standard bolt face. Need a long action bolt.

Here's one on fleebay, I mean eBay:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/Weatherby-...810635?hash=item4b3ccffc0b:g:NVUAAOSwVt1aqZJy


Here's a bolt face guide, so you can check my thought process:
https://www.longrangehunting.com/threads/bolt-face-diameters.36661/


Be safe and get the head space checked before firing the rifle. Could be big problems otherwise. May take a little smith work to get it all put together right.

 

[wildcat westerner]

Martin AKL, from Boise,

Thanks so very much very this very explicit email, which is absolutely special in terms of accurate information. A bolt will be ordered, and since that 28 inch heavy barrel can't be factory, pulling it off and setting the proper headspace should be pretty straightforward.

This site is really special to me, and recently I had a rifle which was totally frustrating to deal with in terms of accuracy to be rebarreled in a 6.5 Sherman chambering, with a reamer supplied by Richard Sherman of Idaho. That 6.5 Sherman, which has ballistics equal, according to my chronograph, to a .264 Winchester mag, performs incredibly well. The first two sight in shots allowed me to be on target and the next three went into .266, so after two frustrating years, the gunsmith here who did this job for me, will also be headspacing this .240 Weatherby for this friend.

Thank you so very much at this time.
Gene S.

 

[wildcat westerner]

Martin,
Happy Easter,
While traveling to Dallas, I thought to inform you that my friend who needed that bolt for his .240 Weatherby got the bolt on the opening bid. This man, whom I have only seen three times, has huge landholdings here in New Mexico, and He owns two large mesas. One he uses for cattle and hunting, The other is more remote and difficult to access. You know which one I would like to access for hunting
Thank you so much for your information!
I have just completed placing a newly chambered 6.5 Sherman barrel on a rifle that has driven me to distraction in terms of accuracy. I turned it over to another gunsmith, we found the action had not been true, and removed that impossibly heavy barrel, that brought the rifle to over 22 pounds w/o scope. That alone provided two contentious phone calls.
Now that same rifle has provided two three shot groups of .236 and .355 and velocities of 3,296 fps average for the 143 grain Hornady ELDX bullet. I am amazed at the performance from this '06 based cartridge which is an improved .280 Ackley Improved with its shoulder pushed even further forward, plus four in the magazine, one in the chamber!
Happy Easter,
Gene s.