Alaskan brush hunter

[Dogmann]

I see the Alaskan brush hunter offered on the savage site. My question - what other chamberings do you think I could do on this action? Barrel choices?

Id love to do a short barrel 458 or 45/70 bolt gun would be cool!

[stangfish]

You can do any chambering that fits in any of the 11X series rifles. If you get the bolt face extractor ejector to work, Voila!
There are a few exceptions.

[Dogmann]

I sent two emails out to a couple of savage specialists - but have to heard if this project is even possible.

[BrantSFGDS]

It's a long action with a magnum bolt face so you could put a 458 in it just by changing the barrel. 45/70 wouldn't work because it's a rimmed cartridge, but a 450 Marlin would work if you don't want the 458 Win Mag. Check the barrel shank diameter before you order a barrel for the Alaskan, they are not listed as being a large shank model but I measured one less than a week ago that was a large shank and it was chambered for 375 Ruger. I am in the process of putting a 450 Marlin in a 10 FCP-SR and I spent about 5 hours in a gun store last weekend with a pair of calipers measuring just about every variation of components to see what fits what. I started the build on a long action Stevens 200, and it worked great, it just didn't occur to me that the 450 Marlin would fit in a short action at the time. Once I remembered the length of the cartridge, I decided I would rather use a short action. The fly in the ointment was that I already had the barrel and it is a small shank. All of the factory short action magnums use large shank barrels, so I had to get a standard short action and I will have to change the bolt head to a short mag push feed. I'm waiting on the bolt head and firing pin, I'll let you know if there are any other parts needed once I get it running. I went with the 10 FCP-SR because it was set up exactly the way I wanted it and I'll have a really nice 308 barrel for a spare. I started this project to replace a custom Siamese Mauser in 45/70 that was stolen. Thankfully the Mauser was recovered, but not until I had started on its replacement.