I am working on assembling my first Savage build. I've always wanted a .284 Winchester so this seems like as good a time as any to get one.

I am trying to avoid sinking a lot of money into this first build. Picking up a $350 barrel is not in the cards right now. I was thinking if I could round up a factory 7mm-08 barrel at a decent price I could just have it rechambered to .284... I think the .284 reamer would clean up the 7mm-08 chamber. My hope is that it would do so easily without removing any threads, etc, that would add to the cost. I'd be running this on a long action staggered feed blind mag action to utilize the full potential of the .284 by not having to seat the bullets too deep.

Would anything else need done action-wise? The donor is a .30-06 so the bolt face is good.

Anyone done anything along these lines?