A17 Savage Replacement Barrel

[300meter]

I'm looking for a replacement barrel for my Savage A17. Does anyone make a drop-in replacement? The factory barrel only shoots 1 1/2 inches at 100yds. Pretty poor for a 17 HMR.

Thanks for the help!

 

[1raggedhole]

Not aware of one. Sell it and try another. Low cost rimfire is like playing the lottery.

 

[Delaware_Ken]

Before you give up on it, try different types of ammo. I was about to give up on my CZ 17 HMR until I tried some 20 grain ammo from Hornady. The groups went from over 2" to under 1" at 100 yards just by trying different ammo.

 

[moorepower]

I'm looking for a replacement barrel for my Savage A17. Does anyone make a drop-in replacement? The factory barrel only shoots 1 1/2 inches at 100yds. Pretty poor for a 17 HMR.

Thanks for the help!

Bedding will likely improve groups more than a new barrel.

 

[SpikeDiesel]

I also have a .17 that will only shoot 20g hollow points. The xtp I believe the bullet is called. My groups resemble shotgun patterns with 17g bullets. The 20's will pick chipmunks off fence posts, and print dime sized groups.

 

[hogpatrol]

Every Savage in that caliber that I've shot or know about preferred the CCI TNTs and only after shooting a few boxes of ammo. Clean the heck out of it first then try them. I don't think it's the barrel.

 

[284winner]

Same for mine. It shoots them all good but only one shoots 1/2 " at 100. Very good IMO.

 

[wholman]

I had a marlin that shot grate and then it did not cleand the berral
good it came back to life only had 100 rounds
in it. Sorry it was hmr did not see a17

 

[moorepower]

Both of mine prefer the 17 Vmax. I know several that shoot the 20 grain bullets the best. There is only one way to find out what yours likes.

 

[Rats-17HMR]

We make Aluminum lined barrels for the A17. PM me if you want photos or more information.

 

[B23]

We make Aluminum lined barrels for the A17. PM me if you want photos or more information.

I know you can have barrels bored and a new sleeve put in them but I've never heard of using Aluminum, wouldn't that be way to soft of a material??

 

[300meter]

I'm still looking for a replacement barrel for my A-17. Do you know of any?

Thanks Again!

 

[hogpatrol]

Clean the daylights out of it. Use JB or Iosso and get the copper build up removed. Then scrub the chamber and throat to get the carbon removed. Try different ammo. Every Savage I've encountered likes the 17 gr TNT ammo.

 

[rob67gmc]

I have two Savage 93's. One has a stainless barrel that has to be very clean to shoot well. The other has a blued barrel that patterns like a shotgun if I clean it. After about 250 shots it will start having flyers. I pull a bore snake through about 3 times and it's good to go.

 

[300meter]

I agree, cleaning seems to help, but still pretty much an 1 1/2 gun at 100 yards. That's why I'm looking for an aftermarket barrel. I had a Clark barrel on a 10/22 magnum that shot great, but they don't make a barrel for the A17.

 

[hogpatrol]

I agree, cleaning seems to help, but still pretty much an 1 1/2 gun at 100 yards. That's why I'm looking for an aftermarket barrel. I had a Clark barrel on a 10/22 magnum that shot great, but they don't make a barrel for the A17.

Not many options other than going the gunsmith and custom barrel route. Have you contacted Savage? I'd do that before pursuing what will be an expensive barrel swap. The cost of your rifle, barrel and gunsmith would probably equal buying a premium rifle like the Volquartsen.

 

[msinc]

Bedding will likely improve groups more than a new barrel.

In a soft plastic "Tupperware" stock???? I doubt it. I am no fan of Savage anything, but I had an A-22. The 22 mag version and I liked some of the things about it especially that it fired from a locked bolt. I tried every ammo made and 1 1/2" at 75 yards was about all I could get out if it. The bore really didn't look that bad either. I mean, a few minutes of lead lapping and it would looked just like a custom barrel. I have to wonder if it is just the ammo quality of today. I have three different 10-22 magnums, one of which is a Volquartsen and another has a 17HMR barrel on it. They used to shoot way better and I know it's not a fouled barrel. I ended up giving that A-22 away to a guy that helped me. These days I have a short fuse for things that don't work good...in this case it was not just the accuracy, the cheesy, typical Savage, cheap plastic magazine with that ridiculous plastic "strap" that almost, but still fails to retains it......come on Savage!!! You people been making guns for how many years now?????

 

[hogpatrol]

In a soft plastic "Tupperware" stock???? I doubt it. I am no fan of Savage anything, but I had an A-22. The 22 mag version and I liked some of the things about it especially that it fired from a locked bolt. I tried every ammo made and 1 1/2" at 75 yards was about all I could get out if it. The bore really didn't look that bad either. I mean, a few minutes of lead lapping and it would looked just like a custom barrel. I have to wonder if it is just the ammo quality of today. I have three different 10-22 magnums, one of which is a Volquartsen and another has a 17HMR barrel on it. They used to shoot way better and I know it's not a fouled barrel. I ended up giving that A-22 away to a guy that helped me. These days I have a short fuse for things that don't work good...in this case it was not just the accuracy, the cheesy, typical Savage, cheap plastic magazine with that ridiculous plastic "strap" that almost, but still fails to retains it......come on Savage!!! You people been making guns for how many years now?????

The engineers go to the marketing guys and the marketing guys go to the bean counters. It's all downhill from there, i.e. "How cheap can we make this, and get people to buy it to make a profit"?

 

[msinc]

The engineers go to the marketing guys and the marketing guys go to the bean counters. It's all downhill from there, i.e. "How cheap can we make this, and get people to buy it to make a profit"?

Yes sir, couldn't have said it better myself!!! I have a Ruger American, which is a rifle in the same boat as the other one, that for what it cost me to get it to shoot.....I could have had a new Sako.

 

[B23]

I have the target sporter laminate A17, it's the one with a heavy barrel and standard laminated stock, not the thumbhole version, and it actually shoots pretty well. All I've ever shot in it is the Hornady label 17 HMR ammo because I have cases of that stuff but with that ammo it'll always shoot 1in. groups at 100 yards.

I took mine all apart, cleaned all that shipping oil stuff they coat everything with, then cleaned/scrubbed the heck out of the barrel so I knew it was clean before I ever fired a single round through it. Can't speak for others but the trigger in mine was REALLY bad and not only was there a ton of pretravel/creep but the creep was really notchy and crunchy before you pulled the trigger far enough to make it go bang. I knew right out of the box, there was no way it could be shot with any amount of accuracy with a trigger that bad so I spent a few hours messaging on the trigger and modifying the spring to get the trigger down to something that was shootable. It still has a slight amount of pretravel but it's pretty minimal and is smooth, not so notchy like it was before. It's around a 2.25-2.50lb trigger now.

Not sure if you've played around with this or if you've even had it out of the stock but I've found, at least with all of mine, most of these rimfire rifles don't like a great deal of torque on the action screws. If you don't use a in.lb. torque wrench it's reallllllly easy to way over torque the screws. All of mine seem to shoot their best when the action screws are torqued to 15-20 in.lbs.

I have a couple spare stocks for A17's if someone is looking for a replacement. One of them is the stock they use on the Target Sporter Laminate and the other one I have is just the cheap plastic stock.