When did savage......

[POP]

Start pillar bedding their rifles????????

[82boy]

They have never "pillar bed" any rifle.

They started placing metal pilars in there rifles I believe in the early 90's.

[hotbrass]

That's a really fine line of distinction between inserted pillars and "pillar bed".

[pdog06]

Well, I think why Pat mentioned that is for a couple reasons.

-on some of the stocks the pillars do not come in contact with the action because they are set in slightly recessed(not on purpose Im sure). So its not like they are set in place using an action, like we would normally pillar bed a stock.

-And on most of the ones I have seen the pillars seem to be pressed in instead of bedded in. So technically they are not pillar "bedding" the stock. The main difference is the factory pillars can be removed very easily.

[hotbrass]

Thanks pdog06,

I figured that if there was metal against metal and no binding, then it would not matter if they were epoxied in or press/molded in. But good pillar to action contact is absolute.

[POP]

The reason I ask is this.
I had bought in 1996-1998 a Savage 25-06 heavy stainless barreled fluted 25-06.
It had blued action and a black synthetic stock

I need to know if it did indeed have the pillars in the stock.

[POP]

BTW I checked an old picture and I can say that the bold required a flat head screwdriver in order to change the handle. Not a hex wrench.

[TnTom]

The reason I ask is this.
I had bought in 1996-1998 a Savage 25-06 heavy stainless barreled fluted 25-06.
It had blued action and a black synthetic stock

I need to know if it did indeed have the pillars in the stock.

I get the impression that you no longer have the rifle .."if it did indeed...." but if you still have the gun it is very easy by removing the forward action screw and look to see if there is indeed a pillar pressed in. You'll see it if its there.

When in the process of bedding my BVSS it was obvious the pillar was recessed and did not contact the action and the groups where reflective of it.

[sharpshooter]

Savage introduced the 112 BVSS in 1995, the year Ron Coburn gained controlling interest. The stock was a heavy laminated target type stock, completly different from the previous years version of the heavy barrel stocks. In 1996 they added a front pillar made of steel and put a black tip on the forend to distinquish from it's predecessors. In 1997 production, a rear pillar of steel was added. It was also in 96 that the tupperware stocks got a front steel pillar, and later in 97 a rear pillar too.