Quote Originally Posted by RC20 View Post
Or you can use the old lug, old nut, put a good barrel on it and have a grand time.

By the time you get done with all the "you cans" you might as well buy a custom rifle that has all that and cost less.

Savage seem to do pretty good shooting with factory guns.

I bought a pretty inexpensive 10T from Cabela's and didn't see a lot of work needed to "true" anything. Shot out the factory barrel which was quite rough to begin with and replaced it with a Benchmark.
cocking piece
Rather than screwing around with "truing" I merely installed the barreled action in an MDT Chassis (Tac-21) and shot it a bunch more.


FWIW, a bolt lift Kit from PT&G is good to go out of the bag, no machine work required. If your rifle has the cocking indicator on the firing pin, just cut it off where it joins the cocking piece. That turns it into the earlier style and the Bolt lift kit will work just fine.