How many of you have your barrel fitted to your action?

[D.ID]

I guess I am nuts because I think the rifle looks better with the barrel nut. Pun intended.

+++1.
Having a savage without a nut.......... blasphemy................The horror.......the shear horror.............just unthinkable.
That goes for "smooth" nut as well. :)

[243LPR]

Nothing more gratifying than buying a beater Savage,replacing/upgrading everything you want to yourself,then shooting under 1/2" at 200 yds. Between building the gun and the ammo,you have control over the whole process. Then you know who to blame if you have problems!

[foxx]

Ain't that the truth!

[Savage6x284]

Nothing more gratifying than buying a beater Savage,replacing/upgrading everything you want to yourself,then shooting under 1/2" at 200 yds. Between building the gun and the ammo,you have control over the whole process. Then you know who to blame if you have problems!

But that's just it. In the vast majority of the cases when using a prefit barrel you really don't have any control over the process.
You take the SAAMI spec chamber the barrel maker cuts for you using the reamer he has. Could be old, could be new, could be at the top of the SAAMI tolerance or the bottom.
Who knows.
This approach has proven to be pretty darn spectacular based upon the number of amazing shooting Savages I see here and elsewhere.
No question about that.
But I think spec'ing out your chamber and leade dimensions to suit your intended payload feels like more control rather than less.
Nut and shoulder are functionally equivalent. Neither IMO holds an accuracy advantage over the other.
My preference for a shoulder is purely aesthetic.
Maybe I look at a well done nutless Savage and I see a glimpse of what Nick Brewer and the crew at Savage might have come up with had their sights been set on the Winchester Model 70 rather than on the Remington 721 in the mid '50s when the 110 was designed.

Old Nick B. did alright though and legions of Savage rifle loonies like you guys (and me!) thank him for that nut every day.

[D.ID]

A:Who says a prefit has to have a SAAMI chamber? Lots of different reamers out there.
B:What does chambering SAAMI or otherwise have to do with the method used to set the head-space of a barrel? I.E. The nut.

[Savage6x284]

A:Who says a prefit has to have a SAAMI chamber? Lots of different reamers out there.
B:What does chambering SAAMI or otherwise have to do with the method used to set the head-space of a barrel? I.E. The nut.

A: Absolutely true.

B: Absolutely nothing.