My little savage in .243 just doesn't want to shoot much better than 1 MOA. I've done quite a bit of work on the reloading bench, touched up the trigger and added a specialty stock, but it just doesn't throw consistant groups much below 1 - 1.5 inches.

I bought this rifle quite awhile ago (for mule der originally), before I took shooting seriously and haven't really taken care of the barrel very well, never broke it in, rarely ran a patch through it for many years.

Also the barrel heats up pretty fast, as it is the lightweight hunter version. Anyway, I have other deer rifles now and I was wondering if it would be praticle to put a new heavy (maybe fluted) target barrel on the darn thing.

On one hand I like the .243 for varmiting and plinking out to 300 yards or so, on the other hand I could buy a whole new (savage varmiter) rifle in 22-250 or 223 for under $400.

Anyone here rebarrel savages? How much does it cost?

my father burned out the barrel on his 7 mag about 20 or so years ago, it was a savage...of course he rebarreled it himself, all it cost him was the new barrel..

I have asembled a few "kit guns"... I could probably handle that, how do you headspace it?

Who sells barrels? I suppose you need a special wrench for the barrel nut...

Sharp shooters supply makes a wrench for the lock nuts on the savage.Once you purchase a barrel and have the correct headspace gauges headspacing the Savage rifle is a very easy task. Screw the barrel in on the go gauge tighten the lock nut check with the no go and you should be set to go.

my father just rebarreled it like a normal rifle, chucked the the barrel and the nut, threaded up an air gauged douglas, and

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You could send it to savage and have them do it. I think they do it for a pretty reasonable fee, $150 or so I think, and their barrels rival custom ones in quality.

Get a .300 WM

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