Part II
Since the rifle was heavier than I hoped for instead of doing the cheap route and cutting the barrel back to 20" or less I decided to send it off to Twisted Barrel to have the bolt and barrel fluted. I was hoping to have him skeletonize or lighten the action, but Twisted only does that on Remington 700 and Howa 1500 actions. Anyway I got the barrel and bolt body back and all I can say is Twisted did a great job and fast turn around. I know everyone is going to want to know how much weight this took off, but I lost my paper work with before weights so I can't tell you exactly.
I still wanted my action lightened and I found a gunsmith in named Steve Field in Roberta GA who was willing to do the work for me. I had taken pictures off the web of the Savage LWT hunter action and sent that along with my action and told him to do something similar. This is what I got.
Here it is all mocked up again with weight. I lost a total of 9.8 ounces getting my rifle down to where I hoped it would have started. Total cost was right at $32 an ounce, so this isn't a cheap process costing me just over $313 for all the metal work.
To be continued!
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