I did the first rifle last summer it was my first time toying with a Savage rifle. Bought this Sevens 200 just to build something on. I settled on 6X47/6mm-222RM for the cartridge. I put a Sin Arms 1:12 twist barrel on it #3 contour, 11 degree crown 20" long. SSS competition trigger, recoil lug, and the tactical bolt handle.

I had a ton of 55 grain Nosler BT bullets I couldn't get to shoot in my .243 Win which helped with the caliber decision. Shoots pretty good with 29 grains of H335 and the 55 grain bullets. It is able to stabilize 80 grain Winchester bulk bullets and puts them 6" low from POI of the 55 grain bullets may have to try a pronghorn with this rifle in the fall.

I primed the stock with some NAPA brand automotive plastic primer; and I painted the stock with just a plain textured Forest green paint. Put a couple coats of satin clear on it as well. Going to send it off soon for a black titanium finish on the barreled action.








The next rifle I just picked up a bone stock .223 Rem three Weeks ago. I found it used with a Burris FFII 2-7X35 scope on it. When you factored in the price of the scope it was just too good of a deal to pass up. I did move the scope to my 6X47 and put the 2-7 Monarch on this one, unfortunately can't use the Butler creek flip up on eyepiece because I used shorter rings and the bolt hits the scope cap.

This rifle will probably get the same treatment as the 6X47 as far as the SSS trigger and bolt handle go. I'm not planning on changing out the cartridge so I doubt I'll install the recoil lug since it seems to be a decent shooter already.

I primed the stock again with the same NAPA plastic primer. I found some Gray Stone textured paint to try. It was textured all right, felt like someone glued gravel to the stock. Tried a little sandpaper and it smoothed right out and didn't pull the paint off. Finished again with a satin clear coat.








Should be ready for prairie dogs this summer.

Looking good! Playing with Mod. 200s has become quite a thing with me. Really pleasantly surprised with some of the barrel quality of E.R.Shaw barrels.Have fun! roger

Nice jobs on bof'um!

This seems to be about as good as I get with this 6X47 rifle. Probably need to bed it and that would help the groups.

Two very nice jobs!

I may try one of those..

was thinking of a 6 x 45 myself on the Stevens Action with a Tactical Bolt and short barrel..

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Originally posted by seafire/B17G:
Two very nice jobs!

I may try one of those..

was thinking of a 6 x 45 myself on the Stevens Action with a Tactical Bolt and short barrel..

I'd be pretty interested in some Blue Dot loads if you ever do!

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Originally posted by taylorce1:
I'd be pretty interested in some Blue Dot loads if you ever do!

Excellent way to do some Major Metal Reshaping on the old ones.

I have 5 of the Stevens 200's now and have had a couple more that I sold,,,, painted all the stocks with the Krylon Fusion paint,,,, flat brown, flat Tan or flat OD Green... the flat fusion paints have a good texture and stick very very well to the stocks.

Would really like to rebarrel a 300WM Stevens 200 to 300ruger,,,,I like what I've heard about that round

Forgot,,, I also lightly sand the stocks with some 120 grit sandpaper before paining, adds a little to the texture and probably helps the paint bond

I'm glad you figured out that you could sand that textured "stone" paint. I did an old Jarrett 338 in that paint once, and the finish had the texture of 80-grit sandpaper.

Very nice! I especially like the Gray Stone.

Do you recall what grit/# of sandpaper you used to tone it down and smooth it up?

Again...nice work.

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Originally posted by Bobby Tomek:
Very nice! I especially like the Gray Stone.

Do you recall what grit/# of sandpaper you used to tone it down and smooth it up?

Again...nice work.

Finished up with 400 grit. I only let the paint cure for 24 hours before I started sanding. Was afraid to get too agressive with it so I started and stuck with 400, took a while but the paint stayed on. Really concentrated on the area of the cheek weld, the rest I just knocked the edge off so to speak.

Thanks! That is definitely a project I'd like to try some day.

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Originally posted by Hot Core:

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Originally posted by taylorce1:
I'd be pretty interested in some Blue Dot loads if you ever do!

Excellent way to do some Major Metal Reshaping on the old ones.

here's your 2 cents of recognition for your uninvited 2 cents worth of opinion....

how many deer you killed this week? 20, 30, 40?? ......

so what do you do when some of those deer look exactly like the neighbor's Mule?

must have been a mule deer right?