Dennis Sorensen

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Dennis,
Your feelings on Remington bolts with Sako extractors are well known. In the "Sako Extractor Pivot Hole" thread, you showed a picture of a Remington bolt with a Savage bolt head that also has the gas baffle. I've seen a couple that had only the bolt head installed with no baffle.

Please comment on the no-baffle conversion. Have you seen a problem with this?

Regards, Ron
 
A comment on the gas baffle....I have the remnants of a Savage that was blown up by an extreme overcharge of fast powder in a cast bullet load. It blew the top off of the receiver ring and launched the barrel. the bolt was angled up at about a 20 degree angle, but did not move to the rear. They never found the gas baffle. The back of the barrel swelled enough that the barrel nut cannot be removed. I wouldn't worry about the lack of a gas baffle.

Luckily the shooter had on shooting glasses and his non trigger hand was on the rear bag, so he suffered no permanent damage even though the stock was blown in two at the magazine. He had a practice of inserting a dowel down the necks of charged 30-06 cases to verify the level of the 4227 powder that he used. This was caused by two things. He probably got distracted while charging a loading block of cases and restarted on a charged case, and he got lazy and only checked the perimeter cases in the block. If he had checked them all for powder level, before seating bullets, the accident would have been prevented.
 
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RJM said:
Dennis,
Your feelings on Remington bolts with Sako extractors are well known. In the "Sako Extractor Pivot Hole" thread, you showed a picture of a Remington bolt with a Savage bolt head that also has the gas baffle. I've seen a couple that had only the bolt head installed with no baffle.

Please comment on the no-baffle conversion. Have you seen a problem with this?

Regards, Ron
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I have no experience with either. I have a severely damaged bolt I may convert and I was planning on installing the baffle. I don't know of a reason not to.
 
Loading blocks are a accident waiting to happen. Once you charge the case SEAT the bullet immediatly. Jon
 
Thanks, Dennis & Boyd

I'm in the same situation with a Rem bolt that needs help & was thinking of doing the Savage bolt head conversion. The procedure in the following thread doesn't use the baffle.

http://benchrest.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45533&highlight=savage+conversion

Although I've shot a 40xbr with an M-16 extractor for years, Dennis has made me wary. So I decided to do the savage conversion on this other bolt - have all the parts, ready to go. When Dennis showed a picture in the other thread of a bolt with the baffle, I asked the question to see if I the baffle was a good idea.

In my case it's a right port rifle, so probably no problem without the baffle.

Thanks, for the answers.
Regards, Ron
 
RJM said:
I'm in the same situation with a Rem bolt that needs help & was thinking of doing the Savage bolt head conversion. The procedure in the following thread doesn't use the baffle.

http://benchrest.com/forums/showthread.php?t=45533&highlight=savage+conversion

Although I've shot a 40xbr with an M-16 extractor for years, Dennis has made me wary. So I decided to do the savage conversion on this other bolt - have all the parts, ready to go. When Dennis showed a picture in the other thread of a bolt with the baffle, I asked the question to see if I the baffle was a good idea.

In my case it's a right port rifle, so probably no problem without the baffle.

Thanks, for the answers.
Regards, Ron
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I don't think it is complicated to add the baffle and the part does not cost much... and it provides additional security if you rupture a case... it would slow down or deflect the extractor, brass, gas, etc. That is why Savage installed it...
 
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