Having a bolt handle on a .22lr STRAIGHTENED?

[CoyoteSix]

Yeah, I know, this is a really strange request.

I'm just wondering how easy or costly it would be to have a bolt on a .22lr bolt action ( Marlin XT-22 in particular) STRAIGHTENED so that it replicates a MN 91/30's bolt.

This would really be used for particulary for learning some better bolt manipulation techniques and fun


This is really just a curiosity topic for me.

 

[toivo]

You're talking about the bolt HANDLE, right? You want it coming out at a 45º angle like a Mosin or some Mausers, rather than bent down?

I'm not a gunsmith, but my guess is that it would be easier to cut it off at the bend and attach a straight one rather than getting into bending the one that's on there.

I could be wrong -- it has happened before.

 

[45lcshooter]

If you have the welder and cutter, all you would need is a rod the same diameter as the bolt handle. Cut the bolt handle were the bend starts and the other end and cut your rod to length you want. It might be hard to find a rod, im not sure. But that is how I would go about doing that. Im sure someone has a better way or has devised a way of doing your project better than this, but thought I would give my nickels worth of knowledge.

 

[303 hunter]

Google "The Bolt Man". He does great work cheap.

 

[rcmodel]

It would be a 5-minute job to heat the bolt handle with an acetylene torch and straighten it.

Any gunsmith could easily do it.

rc

 

[CoyoteSix]

I'm thinking RC models way of doing it might be the easiest.

Thanks for the help guys!

 

[Rembrandt]

Number one reason they're bent down is for sight and scope clearance....sure that's what you want?

 

[Kush]

Normally you would either heat it with a torch and bend it or cut it off and weld a new one on like everyone here has been saying, however, I am wondering whether this will cause a problem with the heat treating and possibly a dangerous situation as .22 rifles normally use the bolt handle as the locking lug.

 

[303tom]

Yeah, I know, this is a really strange request.

I'm just wondering how easy or costly it would be to have a bolt on a .22lr bolt action ( Marlin XT-22 in particular) STRAIGHTENED so that it replicates a MN 91/30's bolt.

This would really be used for particulary for learning some better bolt manipulation techniques and fun


This is really just a curiosity topic for me.

Easily done & should not cost much...............

 

[kingcheese]

Id cut it off and attach the same handle at a different angle, but straitening the handle on a rifle so small may get into clearence issues, and it would get in the way of a scope, my best suggestion would be to learn to operate it as it is seeing as a mass majority of rifles are made that way

 

[Driftertank]

I've personally used an acetylene torch to bend a Mosin bolt. It's not terribly difficult.

As to the effect on heat treating, if you heat steel to critical temperature and allow it to cool back to ambient temperature slowly, what you've done is annealed it. You've softened it back to its basic malleable state. It won't be brittle or at risk of breaking suddenly; rather it may have a tendency to bend or peen from camming into place. But if your heat is properly adjusted and applied right where you want to straighten, and you work efficiently, you can straighten the bolt handle before enough heat transfer has entered the bolt body to seriously effect temper.

Besides i doubt .22LR bolts are heat-treated to any great extent, personally. Just not a huge amount of energy to contain there.

 

[CoyoteSix]

I'm not exactly worried about scope clearance because I'm not gonna put a scope on it

 

[loose noose]

Like Kush said, What about the locking lug, which is usually the bolt handle closed on the receiver?