Savage rifle conversion question...

[ShortFatHokie]

I have a Savage 111 FXP3 rifle in 30-06 and was wondering if it can be converted to a 270 Win or 25-06 Rem? If so, what all needs to be done to accomplish this? TIA

 

[LoonWulf]

barrel, headspace gauges, barrel nut wrench, and about 1hrs time. If your realy unlucky, your barrel nut will be stuck on real good. I ended up cutting mine off with a cut off wheel and dreme.

 

[ShortFatHokie]

Great! Thanks for the help!

 

[R.W.Dale]

I've gotten really good at breaking the most stubborn bbl nuts loose as easy as can be.

You put a large crescent wrench on the recoil lug and your bbl nut wrench on the nut.

You then place this on the floor with the wrenches arranged in such a way that when you stand on the middle between the two wrenched all of your weight is going into loosening the bbl nut. At most a couple hops and that puppy submits

 

[BoilerUP]

A couple blocks of hardwood, a bench vise, and deadblow hammer will make the job easier IMO.

http://savageshooters.com

 

[LoonWulf]

I used boilerups method, it works well unless youve got an older savage thats got its nut rusted on LOL.

 

[R.W.Dale]

I've actually not had much luck using blocks and a bench vise. I must be getting the actions assembled by gorillas

 

[BoilerUP]

I had to use brown sugar between my barrel and the blocks on both rifles I've disassembled to provide a little extra "grip"; many folks recommend baseball pitcher's resin but I didn't have any available.

My barrel still spun a bit in the blocks with the sugar, but 3-4 good whacks on the nut wrench with a 1lb dead-blow hammer and both nuts broke free.

 

[Afy]

Dont swap your on barrel on a Savage. It gets very addictive.