Custom Savage .300blk Build

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Ryan327
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Custom Savage .300blk Build

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My first post here, been lurking and reading for a bit, decided I better register and start sharing. Here is my .300blk build...now just waiting for my thunderbeast to come in and start getting really quiet.


Here you go.

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Savage 12 left handed action in .223 with accutrigger
BFG 16.5 .300blk barrel, 1:8 twist and threaded 5/8th by 24
Sharp shooters precision recoil lug
XLR Chassis system with 12" shroud
Atlas Bipod
AICS 10 rounds mags
EGW 20 MOA base modified by XLR Industries
Seekins High Rings
SWFA SS 3-9 x 42 scope

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Re: Custom Savage .300blk Build

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did you buy just the action or cannibalize it from another rifle?

I'd love to build something from scratch, but the only savage actions I can find right now are target (no mags) actions.
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Re: Custom Savage .300blk Build

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BuckySWT wrote:did you buy just the action or cannibalize it from another rifle?

I'd love to build something from scratch, but the only savage actions I can find right now are target (no mags) actions.
Best thing is to just buy a used rifle and part it out. You'll likely have less $$ in a whole used rifle than buying just an action.
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Re: Custom Savage .300blk Build

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The action came new from Jim Briggs @ Northland Shooters Supply. He can get just about anything you'd need, but it's not really that cheap. Since i wanted a lefty and didn't want to wait forever I went to him and had it in about a week. Finding a cheap donor gun would be the best way to do it on a budget though...
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Re: Custom Savage .300blk Build

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Visited with my class 3 dealer, Immortal Arms, today to pick up my .22 suppressor and got some visitation with my thunderbeast. Just a little more gun porn.

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Re: Custom Savage .300blk Build

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Ryan327 wrote:The action came new from Jim Briggs @ Northland Shooters Supply. He can get just about anything you'd need, but it's not really that cheap. Since i wanted a lefty and didn't want to wait forever I went to him and had it in about a week. Finding a cheap donor gun would be the best way to do it on a budget though...
yeah...I just found him via the savage forum.

May need to go this route. Have my grandpa's old 110L in 30-06 and it will still shoot ragged holes with the right ammo.
Love the action and trigger on that gun...not sure if he had a trigger job done or not, but it's just this side of "hair trigger"


so the chassis is built to take the AICS mags...cool.
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Re: Custom Savage .300blk Build

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BuckySWT,

Gunshack is another vendor on the site that has a SAV model 10 Hog Hunter 223 for $410.. Its blued, but gives you a functioning rifle for the price..

There's not a lot of value in the take-offs, but they do help recoup some of the other costs..

I'm also on that forum, and suffer from "Savage-itis" and keep a few actions on-hand for projects.. So far I've built a Blued and Stainless actioned 300 BLK Varmint Barrels, and the next project will be a sporter barrel built on a Stevens donor rifle I got from the classifieds.. There's plenty of routes to success, just some more expensive than others..

Aside from tweaking the ejection, I'll have approximately $400-500 net in the gun and barrel before optics and any bolt tweaks..

Starting from scratch, long term keeper rifle, mounted to a nice chassis/action as above, specific project in mind, I'd be looking at Jim's actions too.. I've bought from him, and he's a knowledgable resource.

Just wanting to get into the game at a reasonable price point... find a savage/stevens 223 donor, disassemble and sell parts, then built to your liking..

One other benefit to a NEW, undesignated action(new factory action, never assembled into a rifle)... You can actually start it as a pistol build, once the pistol build is complete, if you want to make it a rifle, you still can, but your order must be Pistol first, Rifle second, the other route(Rifle->Pistol) makes you legally liable for making a SBR.

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Ryan327 wrote:The action came new from Jim Briggs @ Northland Shooters Supply. He can get just about anything you'd need, but it's not really that cheap. Since i wanted a lefty and didn't want to wait forever I went to him and had it in about a week. Finding a cheap donor gun would be the best way to do it on a budget though...
yeah...I just found him via the savage forum.

May need to go this route. Have my grandpa's old 110L in 30-06 and it will still shoot ragged holes with the right ammo.
Love the action and trigger on that gun...not sure if he had a trigger job done or not, but it's just this side of "hair trigger"


so the chassis is built to take the AICS mags...cool.
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Re: Custom Savage .300blk Build

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If you get a xtra bolt head in 308 you could make a switch barrel set up. There are 458 socom barrels avaible for the savage rifles. All you need is a barrel nut wrench, and a 308 mag

It looks like my set up,( great minds think alike). I think you got the bolt on the wrong side, I just don't know how you could get that wrong.

The more you use that xlr chassis the more you are going to like it.

It will take a few trys to get it set right. You will think you have it right, then make a little change you will find out you were wrong. Length pull and comb height are basic, move the cheek piece more forward or back , don't forget the pad hieght adj. When it all comes together it will go from feeling good to great

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Re: Custom Savage .300blk Build

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Very nice!
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Re: Custom Savage .300blk Build

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I'm having a lot of feeding and ejection issues....guess i'll need to try another extractor since the ball alone has no effect.
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