Questions For The Savage Guys

[Greyfox]

Anyone ever seen the smooth barrel nuts on a savage? They dont have groves for the barrel wrench.

My LRH long action had a smooth nut in it. Their factory barrels are murder to get off when they have the grooved nut in them so I just used a pipe wrench to remove it. It was destroyed, as expected. Replaced it with the precision nut(and lug) supplied by Northland.

 

[FURMAN]

My LRH long action had a smooth nut in it. Their factory barrels are murder to get off when they have the grooved nut in them so I just used a pipe wrench to remove it. It was destroyed, as expected. Replaced it with the precision nut(and lug) supplied by Northland.

This is what I do.

 

[sedancowboy]

I just clamped the barrel in a barrel vise and then put the action wrench from Northland on the barrel nut and turned it off There were no marks on the nut when I got it off. I sprinkled a little rosen on the wrench before clamping it onto the nut.

 

[jasonco]

BTW the Savage short action is actually a mid-action, so it works very well with longer short cartridges.

 

[cockednlocked]

Look at the big horn barrel nut it allows you to use an 1 1/8" box end wrench very handy and economical if you don't own a barrel nut wrench

 

[FURMAN]

BTW the Savage short action is actually a mid-action, so it works very well with longer short cartridges.

I would not go that far. The late 80s up Savage actions are short actions that just happen to be very slightly longer than most SAAMI cartridge lengths. The newer(last couple decades) allow up to between 2.950 and 3.0". The original intermediate("j")actions were around 3.2". A mid action typically allows ~3.2".

 

[BrentM]

BTW the Savage short action is actually a mid-action, so it works very well with longer short cartridges.

Definitely more room in the savage sa with dbm or internal box. If you swap to a magazine then you are just restricted to the mag length.

 

[Creedmoor shooter]

My factory savage mag allows for a 3.005 max length. Definitely longer than your average SA which makes it a good choice for wsm/prc cases

 

[jasonco]

I'm going to grab another 10FV after my big game hunts (5 animal to collect) are over and start on another project. 6.5 PRC, 25 SAUM or when Miles is done with development of his 25 Blackjack? The blind mag is plenty long for 6.5 PRC with 156 EOL seated out.