Polish your Bolt to Silky Smooth in 20 minutes - (Shown on CZ 455) 

I just covered my cz bolt in flitz and cycled it through a movie , it’s now smooth as butter, amazingly smooth, then sprayed the action out with brake cleaner and put a light coat of bolt grease !

For my CZ455 & 457 bolts, I buff them with a 6" buffing wheel on a grinder/buffer machine using brown polishing compound. Unlike the 455's stamped serial number on the bolt, CZ laser etches the serial number on the new 457 bolts on the bottom side and they are very gritty when new. I take down the rough edges with a green scotch pad on die grinder and finished them with the buffer. Spend 1/2 an hour on this process and your bolt will be silky smooth.

Just acquired a few guns and plan to spend some cold winter evenings deburring and polishing the actions. It’s amazing how little work it takes to make a big difference. Very satisfying to feel and hear the difference.

Works like a charm, I picked up a 1986 Brno which had very little use so the bolt wasn't worked in at all. Its now glass-smooth! Also a going over with cotton buds & autosol afterwards makes it even better.

Good job my Brother, Semper Fi! Any new firearm today needs that kind of attention up front; it is not done any more from the manufactures. I use stones, wet and dry paper of different grits, jewels files and even lapping compounds at times in areas. The Dremel tool works, but I have metal polishers up to a floor standing unit. The 455 is an easy rifle to do, and you nailed the every guys solution to do what needs be done.

I used fine emery and then polished. On my first I used the old method of using it for 25 years. Never liked the roughness when first bought it but didn't even consider the option of fixing it. I bought a new for my wife and polished it. Both about the same now.

I’ve had my Remington 700 BDL around 30 years. It came out of the box like running on polished ball bearings and after all these years still feels ultra smooth.

Thank you for posting this. Very clear instruction and demonstration. 🇨🇦

Excellent Instructional Video on how to Prep / Remove sharp edges on a bolt action rifle! Thank you Sir for posting this fine video. I will be using this method on a newly purchased CZ rifle. CHEERS

You know, for money we have to pay fr this 'quality' rifle, you'd think CZ would have done this BEFORE it left the factory; that being said,. this video will help us to give this rifle's bolt ( indeed almost any bolt action rifle ) the finish it now needs to be able to operate smoothly. Thanks for putting this video up here on RU-vid.

Excellent video. I did a similar procedure on my Anschutz 54.30. Although the bolt was fairly highly polished from the factory, a little extra work with some autosolvol made a difference. I also use some slide glide on the bolt as well as a regular strip down and very light oiling of the firing pin.

Great video. Excellent point, it made a real difference in the smoothness of the bolt.

Excellent presentation, informative and to the point.

I did this with all my CZ rifles. Nice vid!

I am in possession ( temporarily ) of a Marlin, Take Down, Lever Action, Octagonal barreled, .22LR Caliber Model 39 ( Not the later 39A ) manufactured according to the Ser # around 1923-25. A work of art. No idea how many rounds have been through it. Smoooth... ☆

Great advise. Did this on a new CZ .22. Instead of a stone, I barely knocked off the sharp edges using wet/dry 1500 grit sand paper, then polished with a dremel like you did. Cleaned all the polishing compound off, oiled it back up, and smooth as silk now. Thank you for posting this.

I just shot the rifle a bunch. It's an incredibly fun and easy way to smooth out your bolt.

Done this on the norinco JW-15, smooth as glass now!

It should of been smooth from day 1, i got the 527 american .233 brand new a few months back and it was as stiff and rough as hell, you shouldn't have to put 500 rounds though a rifle for it to preform smoothly at the price you pay for it. You done a great job explaining how you polished yours and i have done the same as a result, good rifle now so happy days.

That stone looks just like my old Buck Washita stone. For the DIYs that have never used the felt wheel and a polishing compound before, wear a mask so you aren't breathing the very fine dust that is created by that method and also, if you have guitars or nice things that you don't want covered with a fine layer of the polishing compound, either cover them or remove them from the room or just do the polishing somewhere where your nice stuff isn't around. Using Tripoli would have done the job without having to use the stone. Of course, carborundum in 400, 600 and 1000 grit would handle the job if things are really rough, and polish after that. As smooth as an action feels from the factory, a good polish job always improves the working feel of any action, although I have to admit that my 452 American was and is, pretty smooth and I haven't done anything yet to improve it.... Maybe one of these days..... ;) Also, I should mention that Dremel has a "cratex" wheel that is impregnated with a very fine polish and that wheel would do much of this work itself....

excellent! will be doing this on a savage MKII very soooon! thx for the video, cheers.

Great video, thanks for sharing.

Those "Barber Hones" are great.

I have the same problem with an old Norwegian krag, known for extremely smooth bolts, I will try this when I can!

Just what I was looking for! Thanks brother.

After a few hundred rounds, the bolt smoothes out on its own. Its not as pretty but my 455 feels smooth like butter!

I checked out a CZ 22 Mag; Autoloader about 3 years ago. The Safety was sooo sticky that I could not move it. The owner of the Firearm store who was Big and Burley took over and he had a great deal of trouble getting it to move although he finally did. I was and still am not impressed with CZ's quality. This example doubles my doubts about CZ's quality. CZ is not exactly a budget manufacture of firearms. Kudos for this fix if one already has one or more.👍👍

Or...you could just work the bolt back and forth by shooting it (or not) and it will wear itself in very nicely. They aren't even close to being rough out of the box. Love mine. 100 fun rounds at the range and it’s smooth as glass. You’re just polishing areas that don’t need it. A quality rifle will always need to wear in.

My CZ455 UL bolt is super smooth, been that way since new, no polishing needed.

Many thanks 10 mins like new.

I just put some JB on mine and worked it back and forth. Then cleaned it good when done.

That's a job for a long winter's evening.

Used a dremel on my feed ramp on my cheap 22 Phoenix years ago... No problems since

Awesome thanks for the video

Shoot 500 rounds oiling but not cleaning the bolt area, Then give it a good cleaning and light oil makes it slick as snot.

Dremel making my teeth hurt, LOL.

mine was ass aswell when i first got it but after sitting there for two nights straight running the action over and over again shes smooth as butter turly a beautiful shooter

My 455 Tacticool bolt was really smooth out of the box. I guess I got lucky.

Great video

an interesting video super cool friend

I just bought a brand new CZ527 American 22 Hornet couple days ago. I bought what i originaly thought was a quality firearm. I couldn`t be more wrong. I got it home, going thru it and cleaning it, i opened the bolt, and it was super tight. Upon noticing, it sounded like it was grinding rocks up as i moved it forward and backwards. I pulled the bolt out, and i just could NOT believe how bad the machine work was on the bolt. Its like it was roughed out on a lathe but never finished. I am just seriously pissed for what i paid for this gun to have it sent to a store to be sold. Its my own fault for not looking at it closer before i bought it. I SHOULD HAVE pulled the bolt out and inspected it closer. Had i done that, i would have noticed how bad the quality of the machine work was and i would have left it right at the gunshop and not bought it. I dont really want to send the whole gun back to CZ for this problem, but to get them to make it right, i`ll likely have to ship the whole gun back. I`ll be calling them monday to see where we go next with it. You can bet that i WILL BE paying closer attention next time i buy a CZ. A few months ago, i bought a brand new CZ457LUX in 22LR, really sweet gun. Quality was on point, so i slacked off on hard inspection when i bought the CZ527. I figured i was buying quality and didnt need to look it over for flaws i shouldn`t have had to look for. My own fault... but just a lesson to others, the CZ quality just isnt up to snuff like it use to be. We`ll see how they handle my situation. It may dictate if i ever buy another CZ product again, or not. This bolt is so bad that it looks like a metal file. Run your finger nail across the length of the bolt, sounds like a hacksaw cutting metal. Just plain sucks.

Great video thanks. I just did my CZ455 bolt also, and used the blue rubberized grinding stones from Dremel before the polish. It really took down the pits and left a super smooth finish. Same result as your though so whatever hah. Thanks again, its a different gun now.

I have a 455 LR that has no probs with 'clatter' like the vid, but the safety was very hard to operate. It's due to the 'strong' firing pin spring - the firing pin is blocked by the safety. Just had to round the edges of the safety lever inside the bolt, waaayy better now. I didn't need to polish the bolt of my 455, but my Sav B22 needed the bolt's guiding rail polished like in the vid, plus 'breaking the leading-edge of that rail so it wouldn't drag across the bullet-lead and scratch it. That's on a $300 CDN rifle, 'low-end accuracy' it shoots 0.5" at 50yds with SK+ ammo. My CZ does better . . . ca 0.3xxs.

Nice job.

I just bought a CZ 455 and a Vortex Scope. I really liked the polishing tips and will use your technique to smooth my bolt. I have a basic question; what type of mounting rings are those and how do you like them?

Wow that’s sweet

Seems like in the old days cz had old time employees who really took the time to do things right but now it seems they Rush them through and they might have newer employees that don't know how to do those kinds of things

Got a new Remington 700 CP coming tomorrow and I'll be doing this to it! Thanks!

Excellent. Like.

I gotta do this with my rem 783. I love that gun for the accuracy of the 22-250 but its like running rocks together on the action.

Excellent. Like

After you popped the clips I gave up all hopes trying it 🤣 to much effort for me but sweet video

nice job

I THANK YOU very much for posting this video🙏. My Savage BSEV 93 WMR's Bolt-Action sounds similar to walking a pair of NEW corduroy pants, which is no surprise. It’s brand new. It’s sold as a target rifle-as compared with their other rimfire rifles-& the bolt sounds just like yours. I had a spinal cord injury that affects my strength and fine hand function-BUT I still shoot & am equally as accurate as my (able-bodied) friends. What does this have to do with your video? Well, I’m not strong enough to cycle that brand new Action...but I’ve heard that 'lapping the bolt' helps make cycling the action much easier. What you’ve demonstrated seems to have greatly reduced the friction of your action=less force required to cycle. Is this what 'lapping...' is? Thanks!

Some people just put abrasive compound on the bolt and sit all day running the action to accomplish the same goal.

what about the bolt receiver?

Is there a trick to putting the spring clip back on properly so the extractors work? I removed the spring for cleaning and now the bolt fails to extract spent cases.

Does the bolt slide back and forth when you tilt the rifle ?

At like 20 seconds to 24 you can see shards of metal come down the bolt notch

what grit is your sharpening stone?

Bolt is fine, the bolt lug raceway is what to Polish

Does the little groove on both sides of the retainer spring that hold in the extractors and firing pine go towards the butt of the gun or towards the muzzle end of the rifle?

!Very usefull video! Thank you! But what stone are you using? I migth as well ask what polish paste you are using so I get it correctly from the start :)

My extractor will never function again if I take it out :(

Have the exact same problem with my 455 varmint

My 455 is butter smooth after 500 rds. Just shoot it.

My CZ 452 is fairly smooth. I see another person noted that about his also. Maybe there is a different level of finish.

That is a good way yes but what about the counter part? The action? One guy made a vid how he uses JB Bore paste on to the bolt and then cranks it back and forth for a while. That will leave the action side smooth too. It will also form it to the action by wear, not by mechanical grinding.

well I'll be damned. I guess I'll be getting a buffing wheel for my bench grinder and doing this to all my actions.

He left a bit o f important info out here and a little mistake. One, the Stone was a straight razor hone which is in the neighborhood of 20 to 30 JIS Grit. It is not a typical sharpening stone and hard to find. A hard white or black Arkansas stone is easier to find but expensive and is what a smith uses for fine work such as trigger honing. The co mpound is NOT Jewelers rouge. R ouge is a compound for soft precious metals and made from iron oxide. It is not for steel. Color of bar is dull reddish brown. Compound used here is White Alu. Oxide and is a fine polishing compound made for steel. Do not order rouge for your work thinking it is the proper compound. White is fine, Green Chrome is finer adn pure Green Chrome is the finest for full mirror finish. KnifeMaker/Retired after over 47+ Years in the Craft.

Nooo,just add a few drops of ATF to the bolt and work the action a couple hundred times,never introduce abrasive to the bolt

Nice vids! What is size of polishing wheel and what type of stone you used?

I did that to my tikka and now the bolt just falls out of the gun when I turn it over ...

What kind of Dremel tip-attatchment did you use with the Rouge. Good job. Appreciate that. Thank you.

It's meant to be tight.

Joker would just stay up all night opening and closing the bolt couple thousand times.

What is that attachment on the Dremel?

This seems like something to be done to a new bolt but would this work on a severely pitted bolt of an SKS I bought for $75? Is there any recommended procedure to remove the pitting before final polishing? Thanks in advance!

Funny, my 457 was glass-smooth out of the box, but my 455 needed a bit of breaking in.

My bolt on my Colt Sauer was silky smooth, without polishing it.

nice ! need to do this to a mauser bolt. was that a soft polishing wheel on the dremel?

Can a person use sandpaper instead of the sharpening stone prior to the polishing wheel?

What scope rings are those? Thank you

Do you still have the Vespa? How many miles are they good for?

Dang my cz455 wasent near that bad out of the box. Still, i use all weather grease to same effect

Mine I did with sandpaper, it slides smoothly

What grade/grit stone did you use?

Hello sir. Nice and usefull video. Any day now I'm expecting my new CZ 457 Varmint to arrive, which I will than glass-bed and polish the bolt. I got here my double side plated stone grading 400/1500 grit. Does 1500 sounds about right for the bolt ''sanding'' or should it be finer, like 2000, 3000 ....Thanks in advance for advise. Which grade is stone you're working with in the video ?

what did you use on the dremel again?

Good tips, but you probably only needed to deburr the sharp edges.

I didn't use the stone. But have my bolt so smoooooth it's whisper quite

So you only polished that one lower section of the bolt near the face- nothing along the mid section between the face/bolt handle? Interesting.

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what dremel bit did you use for polishing?

any diffrance in accuracy after this job done?

What kind of stone is that?

Dremmel reminds me of my Tinnitus. Eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

My 452 never sounded like that

the whole gun wants running in,... trigger, mag catch, suppressor not just the bolt

Use nitrile gloves if you are handling carbon steel that has had the protective oil removed. Hand oil will cause rust.