Help! Pro Varmint doesn't fit

[notpu]

Just remove the out side hard ware and then take bottom of magazine off, a slap and a flat blade screw driver work well.
Then put the mag assembly, minus the bottom into the stock, put action on making sure all line up and go shoot and enjoy.

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Thanks for your help. There is no bottom of the magazine. My understanding was that blind mags and detachable mags used the same hardware, with blind mags having the metal plate attached to the outside of the stock via the action screws. There is a separate, smaller guide that keeps the spring centered. Since there is no bottom of the magazine, do I simply need to remove the hardware and then I can drop the action into the new stock? Is the removal of the hardware permanent? I'm just not sure the best way to remove the hardware. Will the magazine box stay connected to the action without the hardware, or will the action simply rest on the magazine box, with the stock on one side and the action on the other side holding everything together? I don't mind removing some material from the stock, but it would currently take removing a lot! Since the old stock cracked through this thin area, I'd rather not take away any more material than necessary.

I really appreciate everyone's help!

Edit: I obviously have no idea how to use the formatting on this forum; thanks for your patience and help.


What you are describing above was a fix for a failed hinged floorplate system Savage developed back in the 1960's. The latch for the floorplate would open and dump the contents of the magazine on the ground every time you fired a shot, so the few that actually made it out to customers were recalled. This left Savage with a whole bunch of stocks with holes in them for the hinged floorplate hardware, so they made up a flat metal bottom plate to cover the hole and a polymer spacer plate to keep the magazine follower spring centered so they could use those stocks on blind magazine models.

Later, for whatever reason, they ran out of standard blind magazine housings - likely due to a Q/C issue from an outside supplier, so they used the detachable box magazine housings in their place. When this was done, they basically removed the bottom plate for the detachable magazine and inserted it into the DBM housing to create the blind mag.

In other words, what you have is somewhat of a bastard.

You never stated what cartridge your rifle is chambered for. Chances are someone here on the site has a proper housing they'd be willing to sell you so you wouldn't have to open up the stock. Might also be able to find one at Numrich's Gun Parts.

[notpu]

Thanks for your help. There is no bottom of the magazine. My understanding was that blind mags and detachable mags used the same hardware, with blind mags having the metal plate attached to the outside of the stock via the action screws. There is a separate, smaller guide that keeps the spring centered. Since there is no bottom of the magazine, do I simply need to remove the hardware and then I can drop the action into the new stock? Is the removal of the hardware permanent? I'm just not sure the best way to remove the hardware. Will the magazine box stay connected to the action without the hardware, or will the action simply rest on the magazine box, with the stock on one side and the action on the other side holding everything together? I don't mind removing some material from the stock, but it would currently take removing a lot! Since the old stock cracked through this thin area, I'd rather not take away any more material than necessary.

I really appreciate everyone's help!

Edit: I obviously have no idea how to use the formatting on this forum; thanks for your patience and help.


What you are describing above was a fix for a failed hinged floorplate system Savage developed back in the 1960's. The latch for the floorplate would open and dump the contents of the magazine on the ground every time you fired a shot, so the few that actually made it out to customers were recalled. This left Savage with a whole bunch of stocks with holes in them for the hinged floorplate hardware, so they made up a flat metal bottom plate to cover the hole and a polymer spacer plate to keep the magazine follower spring centered so they could use those stocks on blind magazine models.

Later, for whatever reason, they ran out of standard blind magazine housings - likely due to a Q/C issue from an outside supplier, so they used the detachable box magazine housings in their place. When this was done, they basically removed the bottom plate for the detachable magazine and inserted it into the DBM housing to create the blind mag.

In other words, what you have is somewhat of a bastard.

You never stated what cartridge your rifle is chambered for. Chances are someone here on the site has a proper housing they'd be willing to sell you so you wouldn't have to open up the stock. Might also be able to find one at Numrich's Gun Parts.

That's a really interesting history! It's chambered in .270 but I plan to rebarrel it (maybe to 6.5 x55?). I picked up the rifle as a cheap donor action and hunting rifle for the time being. The project has become more complicated than expected, and I really appreciate your help.