7mm RSAUM in savage PTA?

[its only light]

Hey guys the title pretty much sums it up here. I have a savage model 12 ftr. At the moment it has the 30 inch 308 barrel it came with but I'm wanting to re barrel and restock it for something different. I don't really hunt or do any competition to speak with. So this will be just for shooting with friends at long range for bragging rights. I'm looking at the 7 saum, 7wsm, and 284 win. Obviously I'm leaning toward a 7 but could probably be swayed in a different direction at this point. So anybody ever build a savage PTA on any of these or any other interesting calibers? I'd like to hear your results, how you went about it and what types of barrels people are using.

 

[jr600yd]

All the 7's use a bigger bolt face than your .473 original 308 bolt. Go to say 7 SAUM etc you need to change out the bolt and barrel. With a .284 all you have to do is change the barrel.

 

[matthias]

just a bolt face change and a barrel change. all in all about 20 minutes of work. as long as you have a large shank action i would go for it! also how about selling you 308 barrel?

 

[Jim See]

you will also need to change out the Fire-pin or modify the original FP to work with the new bolt head.