Savage 116FHSAK 300 WIn Mag

[chet]

My buddy purchased a new 116fhsak Weather Warrior in 300 Win Mag, we went out to break it in today after 40 rounds of factory ammo, so far the barrel still coppers very heavy, hope this goes away after another 30 rounds or so, since this is the first time I am around a Savage rifle with a synthetic stock, all my Savages have wood stocks with pillars and I am very familiar how to torque the action screws, but yesterday I went to check the action screw on this one with a synthetic stock, I could have went another turn easily, what is the procedure on torquing the action screws on these models with the synthetic stocks, I figured the screws should tighten the same since there are pillars, but it felt very spongy when I went another turn on the screws, I did turn them back where they were, any comments

thanks
Chet

 

[savet06]

I wonder if that spongy feeling is the lack of contact between the action and the pillars. I would take the rifle out of the stock and do some investigating. The torque shouldn't be any different with synthetic and wood stocks. If you intend to keep the rifle in that stock you may also want to consider skim bedding the action, or what I would do is scrap the tupperware stock and get a bell and carlson, stockade stock, or find someone selling a takeoff factory laminate, and never look back.
Mike

ps. I am not too surprised about the copper fouling. The savage barrels are known for this, but as long as accuracy isn't suffering I wouldn't imagine frequent cleaning will be problem for a heavy hitter like the 300win mag. Not exactly a high volume type weapon!