Well, all my parts arrived and today was the day to put the new CBI barrel on the 11VT action. I had the belief that this would be a relatively quick endeavor. Boy was I wrong! No matter what we tried, we couldnt get the barrel nut to break loose. It must have been installed by an 800 pound gorilla with a 5ft breaker bar for extra leverage. Eventually I clamped onto the action and after 17 hernia's, got it to break loose. I was very nervous when the action and lug finally popped of the barrel because it appeared that about half the barrel threads had been shaved down a bit. The threads inside the receiver looked great and there were no obvious burrs. We cleaned up the receiver, added the nickel anti-seize to the new barrel's threads and then started to put it back together. The new barrel screwed down about 90% then hung up. I backed it off then re-tightened and it went on smoothly the rest of the way. Headspacing process went off without any problems. Dummy rounds chambered just fine. Anyone else have this issue with the factory barrel threads getting shaved down? It is a brand new never fired action off an 11VT. The threads were bad enough that I thought maybe it was cross threaded from the factory. I guess that'd be near impossible, so maybe there was a burr in there or some other shaving? Who knows.. Guess I'll have to really think about it before I attempt to re-barrel any of my other savage rifles. All that being said, I have to admit, she looked real good in the B&C stock and I cant wait for the smith to call to tell me the bedding job is done!