Savage 99 receiver welding

01 December 2017, 04:35

KY Nimrod

I picked up a buggered up Savage 99 in 250-3000 and am working on restoring it. The stock is a goner as someone glued a cheekpiece onto the original and reshaped it (badly).

My immediate concern is the front receiver ring which has bee drilled and tapped in 4 places )again--badly) I want to weld up the screwholes and have the original Savage logo restored. I know Turnbull can do this kind of work.

Is there anyone else that any of you can recommend to get this done right. I'm guessing the barrel needs to be removed otherwise you'd weld it to the receiver via the screw holes...maybe not.

That's all I need at this point. I've got a stock blank with some nicely figured dark black walnut which just seems right for this gun and it will go off to the duplicator soon.

Thanks for any help

01 December 2017, 04:44

JBrown

quote:
Originally posted by KY Nimrod:
I want to weld up the screwholes

I have had a couple of gunsmiths(including Jim Dubell, IIRC) say that welding will cause problems with the refinish and that reaming the hole and fitting a plug is the way to go.

Jason

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01 December 2017, 04:50

KY Nimrod

if you do a polished blue this may be true but this part gets bead blasted and blued and it won't show...

01 December 2017, 05:03

dpcd

Well I have welded up and blued all manner of gun steel and it doesn't show. Just use plain carbon steel rod.

01 December 2017, 06:44

KY Nimrod

quote:
Originally posted by dpcd:
Well I have welded up and blued all manner of gun steel and it doesn't show. Just use plain carbon steel rod.

Me too....though I once had a smith weld a clip slot on a 40X Receiver unlimited class match gun I was building and when he tried to reblue the receiver realized he had used stainless rod...doh! We just had the receiver coated in something like black T. The barrel was a Stainless Obermyer 5R. No worries. I have a CZ75 I bought for a song and it needed some welding on the slide to make it right. Blued up beautifully...