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School me on switch barrel setup
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<blockquote data-quote="yorke-1" data-source="post: 1526892" data-attributes="member: 11960"><p>I'd go with a shouldered barrel if you plan on swapping back and forth pretty regularly. I've spent a LOT of time with Savages and I really like the barrel nut system. The problem is that it's just slower than swapping out shouldered barrels. I drilled and tapped most of my barrel nuts to take a set screw so that I could "lock" the nut in place once I had my headspace set. Then I could pull the barrel on and off without having to worry about the barrel nut wrench at all. I just used a barrel vise clamped to the bed of my truck to hold the barrel and a port entry action wrench to take it off. Depending on the stock I didn't even have to remove the action to swap barrels.</p><p></p><p>I have a Nucleus action off getting two barrels fitted now and I'll probably have a couple more done up down the road. If you just find one smith to to do all your barrel work, then you should only have to send him the action one time. Once the smith has all the measurements off of your action they can just cut any future barrels to the same specs with no issue.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="yorke-1, post: 1526892, member: 11960"] I'd go with a shouldered barrel if you plan on swapping back and forth pretty regularly. I've spent a LOT of time with Savages and I really like the barrel nut system. The problem is that it's just slower than swapping out shouldered barrels. I drilled and tapped most of my barrel nuts to take a set screw so that I could "lock" the nut in place once I had my headspace set. Then I could pull the barrel on and off without having to worry about the barrel nut wrench at all. I just used a barrel vise clamped to the bed of my truck to hold the barrel and a port entry action wrench to take it off. Depending on the stock I didn't even have to remove the action to swap barrels. I have a Nucleus action off getting two barrels fitted now and I'll probably have a couple more done up down the road. If you just find one smith to to do all your barrel work, then you should only have to send him the action one time. Once the smith has all the measurements off of your action they can just cut any future barrels to the same specs with no issue. [/QUOTE]
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