Rebarreling Savage Action, Remington Shoulder Barrel Style?

seagiant · Jun 18, 2021

Hi,
Looking to rebarrel Savage action with a shouldered Rem. Style Tenon Lug, ditching the Nut.

Wondering if any has done this?

MilGunsmith · Jun 19, 2021

Yes, it's been done. Just make your measurements for the tenon the same way as doing a Remington. I have also gone the other way and made a Savage style nut for a Remington.

Jim Kobe · Jun 19, 2021

I prefer to do it this way, I can get the headspace closer to correct.

kendog · Jun 19, 2021

Done many. Treat it like a push feed Winchester or Ruger 77. Savage 10, 11, 110 etc ring faces can be a bit "untrue" and require a squaring cut. I made gadgets to hold the floating bolt head rigid on the bolt body for lapping and squaring with a PTG style bolt face cutter. Maybe overkill but it worked out fine.

seagiant · Jun 20, 2021

kendog said:
Done many. Treat it like a push feed Winchester or Ruger 77. Savage 10, 11, 110 etc ring faces can be a bit "untrue" and require a squaring cut. I made gadgets to hold the floating bolt head rigid on the bolt body for lapping and squaring with a PTG style bolt face cutter. Maybe overkill but it worked out fine.

Hi,
Thanks, I am going to make a mandrel, for the receiver, so I can true the face.

Do you have any pics of your bolt cutting set up???

MilGunsmith · Jun 21, 2021

seagiant said:
Hi,
Thanks, I am going to make a mandrel, for the receiver, so I can true the face.

Do you have any pics of your bolt cutting set up???

I use the standard 8-bolt action truing fixture the same as a Remington instead of a mandrel for the action. I haven't trued the bolt head on a Savage yet, just lapping. Rustystud, who sometimes posts here has all the tricks worked out for Savage actions.

clarkmag · Jun 25, 2021

Savage 110 223 case support .035 in 9-14-2013.jpg

Sav 111 from 7mmRM to 300WM 20180727_215403.jpg

Here are 3 of them I did that way: 223, 250 Sav, and 7mmRM.

tobnpr · Jun 27, 2021

kendog said:
I made gadgets to hold the floating bolt head rigid on the bolt body for lapping and squaring with a PTG style bolt face cutter. Maybe overkill but it worked out fine.

Seems like an unneeded step to me.
I use the receiver tooling block and carbide face cutter most of the time; even if the lug abutments are "off" by a mile the cutter will true the boltface square to the receiver face. Can't be anything but "right".

What do you gain by treating it as a one-piece bolt? Seems to be defeating the entire purpose of the floating bolthead design.
If the lug abutments in the receiver aren't faced true, you can end up with lugs that might be square to the boltway- but poor contact. It would be no different that truing the lugs/boltface on a M700 bolt, but not truing the receiver abutments.

I don't see how this is advantageous?

seagiant · Jun 27, 2021

clarkmag said:
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Here are 3 of them I did that way: 223, 250 Sav, and 7mmRM.

Hi,
Very nice, thank you!

Who's recoil lug are you using???

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