Gary, thanks for the comments. It was a very nice and precise blank to work with, the bore and race ways are perfect in the blank which makes it nice to hold very tight tollerances. I made a mandrell, snug fit, with about 4" out the end to index the action in a spider in my lathe and bored it out for the bolt lug clearence and threading. I then put it in a chuck on my rotary table on the mill and used a 1/4" round end mill and with a series of steps up on the knee of the mill and degrees of rotation on the rotary table, I cut the ramps on the locking lugs. Like a dummy I did not take pics of each step, but all the cuts were made on a manual mill with some jigs to hold it for some of the cuts and then a lot of them were made with it in my vice.
I did order a special order bolt from PTG with the remington bolt face with the extractor on the left side with the bolt closed, which puts it on the bottom with the bolt open for the drop port. You must use a remington extractor because with anything else you are looking right in the port at the extractor.
I did weld the handle on the bolt with my mig. welder.
The text is done by a friend of mine with a lazer engraver, threfore he can set up any size and font that is on his computor. He really does good work.
I am going to put a 30 br. barrel on it and build a 13.5# rifle.
Butch thanks for the compliment, you can thank Dave Kiff and group for the big old ugly Kanob. Ha.
Sam Duke