Difficult following your train of thought. All new Savage and Stevens SA are center feed unless its new old stock. High number G prefix serial number and H prefix serial number are center feed. Savage engineers did a excellant job of reducing parts count when they came up with the new DBM, hinged floor plate and blind magazine.. The blind magazine and follower are used in all three types of setups. Seperate they make up the blind magazine assembly. Add the hinged floor plate for that setup. Get the bottom stock metal, magazine bottom cap and blind magazine assembly put together becomes DBM setup. If your dad wants a DBM I would suggest buying a rifle with the bottom metal/DBM. Seperate it will run around $80 from SSS plus stock costs.
Stocks are another problem for both the new CF actions and DBM. Boyds doesn't make any 4.4" spacing stocks. Stockys does but always seem to be out of stock every time I access there site. I occassionaly find one up for sale on this site. Lately I've just been buying a Savage rifle in whatever action length needed with the DBM setup. That way I get the stock, DBM parts and action for least cost. Then I change out the barrel for whatever I want. I personally don't like the new center feed setup. Not hard loading WSM cartridges or for that matter any of the .473 case head size cases. But the small 223 Remington case size is the real pits loading.
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