No idea what your experience is with savage firearms but some of the worst looking barrels actually shoot amazing. If you have not fired it yet you may want to. The target will tell you how good or bad it is.
I agree. I have had some wicked lookin barrels shoot lights out before. I have tried to shoot this and just can’t get anything out of it. Put a different optic on to try it and nothing. Checked it myself and some large divets and major pitting. Gunsmith confirmed that he believed it needed a new barrel to breathe life back into this ole girl.
I posted some photos down below. Yep small shank. It is 243 and I think I will just keep it at that.
Likely just an extra rifle to get all cleaned up, shooting well and cerskote it to protect. Likely will go to my son once he is old enough to deer hunt.
jaoutdoors.com
Yep it is. He supposedly used it for years without it. But I am going to go through and get it all back in order.
Only that the bottom of the receiver is machined differently. Even later models than yours that have attached blind magazines will not take the DBM's of today. The 4.4 hole spacing models were the first models to be machined to take the modern DBM's. These models use a blind magazine box that is installed in the stock, not attached to the receiver (like earlier models were); or the box can be used as part of a detachable box magazine model or for a hinged floorplate model. Somewhere around the vintage of your action, Savage did make a detachable box magazine model with a release button on the side of the stock, but these are long out of production and required a special stock. Savage has been all over the place on action hole spacing, types of mag. boxes, styles of stocks, location of bolt stop release, etc. Not a lot of continuity as is found in Win. 70 and Rem. 700 models. Not to denigrate Savages (I own quite a few), just the facts about them.
www.gunshack.com
www.gunshack.com
www.gunshack.com
