Originally Posted by
MrFurious
Every now and then I come across a thread on here that really makes me wonder if some of you weren't dropped on your heads one too many times as a baby. This is one of them. :der:
Let me elaborate...
1. What are you going to use for a magazine?
2. How are you going to retain the magazine in the stock?
3. You do realize you'll have to permanently modify the feed port in the action to accommodate any double-stack pistol magazine, right?
4. You do realize that by design the Savage mechanics can't/won't properly extract/eject such a short case, right?
And those are just the blatantly obvious issues with this idea.
Can it be done? Sure...if you want to waste a ton of time and money on it anything can be done. Does it make sense to do? No...because there are already dozens of readily available carbine rifles on the market specifically designed to shoot pistol cartridges and they do so flawlessly. For all the time, money and headaches you'd have in trying to make this work on a Savage you could buy several readily available carbines from Hi-Point, Beretta, Ruger, Kel-Tec, etc.