In my teens, I'd read in my gun magazines about "Glassbedding" actions, using boat-repair epoxy, so I bought some at a local boat/gun shop. I free-floated the barrel and epoxy-bedded the receiver and a couple of inches of the rear-end of barrel. The 2.5X Weaver scope proved adequately accurate, and I could group about 1 MOA with the rifle, especially when using reloads. A buddy had a Lyman JR. press and we loaded ammo for three rifles for his, mine, and my other friend's rifles. Unfortunately, I had quite a few failures to fire and light firing pin strikes with my Savage. I thought it was the rifle and sent it to the factory, but they didn't correct the problem because it was with the reloads. When I got my own press and dies, I solved the problem by setting the sizing die for my chamber. The other rifles had tighter chambers, but we didn't know much about that back then.