This should be a very short thread...
My original intent with the purchase of a short-action receiver was to build a 6.5mm Creedmoor. Some clown says he put a 40 MOA scope base on his Ruger American in that caliber, and was able to hit the target at 1760 yards. That's a mile to those who know zero about firearms. I don't remember what caused me to want to convert my .30-06 Tikka T3 to shoot 6.5mm-06; maybe just the "cool factor" of it. A number of weeks went by when the idea came to me to just buy a barrel for my Zermatt, which would obviate the need to spend a ton of money to put a new barrel onto the Tikka. I wondered if the ejection port of the short-action receiver would be able to handle the spent long-action case. Looks to me like it will because the entirety of the bolt is completely out of the ejection port when the bolt is fully retracted. So... it looks to me like a long-action case can be ejected from a short-action port. The barrel is going to be around $700, but at least I can install it at home with a GO gauge and a 12-point combination wrench.
My original intent with the purchase of a short-action receiver was to build a 6.5mm Creedmoor. Some clown says he put a 40 MOA scope base on his Ruger American in that caliber, and was able to hit the target at 1760 yards. That's a mile to those who know zero about firearms. I don't remember what caused me to want to convert my .30-06 Tikka T3 to shoot 6.5mm-06; maybe just the "cool factor" of it. A number of weeks went by when the idea came to me to just buy a barrel for my Zermatt, which would obviate the need to spend a ton of money to put a new barrel onto the Tikka. I wondered if the ejection port of the short-action receiver would be able to handle the spent long-action case. Looks to me like it will because the entirety of the bolt is completely out of the ejection port when the bolt is fully retracted. So... it looks to me like a long-action case can be ejected from a short-action port. The barrel is going to be around $700, but at least I can install it at home with a GO gauge and a 12-point combination wrench.
