This is my first post, so try not to laugh.....I have two Savage rifles, one a 1918 22 HP take-down with a second 25-35 barrel and fore-arm I made up. I don't use the HP but love the 25-35.
https://imgur.com/a/NAs2S

My question concerns my Mod.170 30-30...I picked this up many years ago from a chap I worked with for the princely sum of $30, fired a few rounds through it, but rarely used it.
My questions are....it won't lock the slide when racked forward...can this be repaired ??....also are these actions strong enough to be re-barrelled to say 35-30 or 375 ?
Any helpful information would be gratefully accepted but please don't tell me to buy this or that instead, thats not why I asked the question.

Roger