The bolt bodies are a harden steel, "The bolt bodies are not stainless steel, but made from 1020 tubing that has been case hardened. While not rust proof, it is rust resistant from the hardness" Reference Sharp Shooter
http://savageshooters.com/SavageForu...html#msg137263
Harden bolt bodies seem to slide better than other bolt bodies that are not hardened, none hardened bolt bodies seen to be a bit grabby. PT&G bolt bodies are not hardened. Now that this is covered can we get the thread back on topic?
If you use the search feature you will pull up some of the bolt bodies that SSS has done.
Here are a couple of results. (Go through all the pages, in the threads.)
http://savageshooters.com/SavageForu...html#msg206200
http://savageshooters.com/SavageForu...c,40949.0.html
http://savageshooters.com/SavageForu...c,33066.0.html