Savage Noob questions

[Suwannee Tim]

I have been shooting for some time. I am newly interested in Savage rifles for several reasons, reasonable cost, good accuracy and interchangeable barrels being the main three. I have a few questions. I examined several Savage rifles recently and all had barrel nuts without splines. How do you remove them? Pipe wrench? Then you replace it with a new barrel nut with splines?

Here is a photo from Savage:

[img width=600 height=415]http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr228/allentimfrank/Daishowatool.jpg[/img]

This is evidently a wrench for such a nut, with no splines, made by the Big Diashowa Seiki Company. Part of the photo was cropped and shows a no-spline barrel nut in the man's other hand. Know any details about it?

[J.Baker]

Fred at SSS sells a wrench for removing these barrel nuts. It's basically a compression wrench (left side in image) as once you slide it down over the nut, you tighten up a spanner screw to clamp it to the nut. The other end of the wrench (right side of image) is setup for removing the earlier smooth nuts that had a hole in the bottom to accept a pin (pin hole would always be on the bottom side of the barreled action).

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[Suwannee Tim]

Thanks. Next question: Every hinged floorplate I have ever seen hinged at the front and latched at the back. The Savage rifles I examined were set up with floorplates and they both hinged and latched at the front. Is this as satisfactory as the traditional front hinge back latch setup?

I shot an FN rifle recently with a detachable magazine and it was a headache to load and could not be loaded in the gun. The shop I was at, I am sure would not have provided me ammo and allowed me to load the rifles I was looking at. Question is, with the detachable box magazine Savages, are they hard to load out of the gun? Can they be loaded in the gun?

[bluealtered]

Hopefully i can help with the dbm question. The detachable mags that i have for my savages load very easy removed from the gun, i do have one that hangs up after the third round but by pushing toward the front of bullet allows the fouth round to go in. I haven't shot this rifle that much and the mag may just need to be used more.

Yes my dbm mags load easy when still in the rifle as well. blue

[sharpshooter]

I have been shooting for some time. I am newly interested in Savage rifles for several reasons, reasonable cost, good accuracy and interchangeable barrels being the main three. I have a few questions. I examined several Savage rifles recently and all had barrel nuts without splines. How do you remove them? Pipe wrench? Then you replace it with a new barrel nut with splines?

Here is a photo from Savage:

[img width=600 height=415]http://i486.photobucket.com/albums/rr228/allentimfrank/Daishowatool.jpg[/img]

This is evidently a wrench for such a nut, with no splines, made by the Big Diashowa Seiki Company. Part of the photo was cropped and shows a no-spline barrel nut in the man's other hand. Know any details about it?

All I know it that tool costs almost $200.00 set-up for one particular diameter.