Well after getting bit by the Savage Bug, and building a rifle on a purchased Stand Alone Savage Action, I am in Love!

The other standard varmint rifles just look so blase' now...

From the Savage Catalog:


However, perusiing their Target rifles also, some of these with 30 inch barrels appeals to me even more....

so the decision is to combine the pair...

first on the list is going to be a fast twist ( one in 7) barrel chambered in 22.250.... that with a 30 inch length, one inch thickness stainless barrel...

I am already lusting over how coool that is going to look.. and if it shoots half as good as this 7/08 barrel from ER Shaw shoots, varmints are going to be dodging those 75 and 80 grain A Maxes at some pretty far distances out there!

although deluxed out in the 260 Rem dept, I have to play with the 6.5 Creedmore if nothing else for sheer curiosity...

And the final ( yeah right!) varmint cartridge has to be a 30 inch barrel, one inch diameter, chambered in a fast twist 6mm Rem...stainless of course...

between a fast twist 22.250 and a fast twist 6mm Rem, with 30 inch barrels, that will give me something that will reach out and dust off prairie dogs at some phenominal distances...

now all I have to do is match the optics up to the barrels capabilities...

I am sure happy about discovering the toys these Savage Actions are!

Seafire,

I'd re-think that 7" twist barrel, with a 22-250 chambering.

Normally, anything over about 320,000 rpm in a 0.224" bore, will exhibit unpredicable bullet blow-ups upon muzzle exit.

Precision Shooting magazine had a nice article involving a similar situation, about a month ago, or so.

Hope this helps....

Kevin

Kevin,

thanks for the heads up....

I already have one tho, and it is fed a diet of mainly 75 and 80 grain A Maxes, the 68 thru 80 grain match bullets and the 60 grain V max and 60 grain Sierra HP...

none of those are exhibiting any problems at all...

some of the smaller weight varmint fragile bullets are a different story... V Maxes, A Maxes, Blitzkings, Ballistic Tips all seem to handle it just fine...

the heavier bullets are the main focus...

I have several 22.250s with the standard one in 12 and one in 14 twists...

I have a 22-250 match rifle with a 1-7.5" twist that is a wind-beater! I shoot only moly bullets in my target and varmint guns and I believe it helps keep bullet heating and jacket scarring to a minimum. Still, if a bullet's going to come apart, this is where it'll happen!

I shoot 80 Sierras and 90 JLK/Bergers. Sierra 69's work well too but I don't push them too fast.

Mark

seafire you will like the fast twist with any bullet 60gr and up.mine likes the berger 80gr.Good Luck

I hear you!

I sawed the chamber off my .22-250 LRPV last winter. It was over 2500 rounds and looked a bit like a dry lake bed in the throat and for an inch or so beyond. So I cut off a bit over 1.5" and rechambered it in .22-250. It's is back to shooting like it did when new.

When I say I sawed the chamber off, I'm not kidding. Take a swig of Mylanta and hit the switch.





I've had or had access to a lathe for almost 60 years, and currently have two, one of which is perfect for through the headstock barrel work. The rifle had a shot out throat, it occurred to me that I might as well spend the winter learning to machine and chamber my own rifle barrels, and true the actions, so I started with this one.

This is the finished chamber.



I won't bore you with all the fun I had making tools - barrel vise, action wrench, floating reamer pusher, spider chuck, cross drilling the tail end of the spindle, etc. But it sure was fun.

After rechambering the .22-250 I looked in the barrel of my Savage Model 10 .243 with a buddy's borescope and about had a coronary. My word that barrel was ugly. About 6 inches back from the muzzle it looked like a tublar file with chatter marks deeper than the lands are tall for the whole OD. Ugly is a charitable description.

Another friend had an Adams and Bennett 6mm 10" twist barrel chambered in 6mmBR that he was willing to sell me for $40.00. I sawed that chamber off, rechambered it in .243, and now that rifle is a genuine 1/2" rifle having fired 8 five shot groups with an aggrigate group size of just under 1/2". The A&B barrel isn't anything to write home about, but for fourty bux it converted a 2" rifle into a 1/2" rifle. Well, OK, I bedded it while I was at it.

Savages are fun to work on. I have a Shilen #8 contour 6mm 8" twist barrel on the shelf waiting for a Savage Target action (right bolt left port). I'm going to chamber that in .243Win as well (I bought the reamer so I might as well use it) and use it for the local club ground hog matches.

I completely agree with you, Savages are fun rifles to play with.

Fitch