So I have an old Savage 110C type J in 30-06 sitting around here and am considering trying to turn it into a tactical style long range rifle just for shits and giggles. I know that parts availability is going to the hardest part. I'm just being cheap and not sure if I want to buy another rifle right now (I need(should) to spend the money to get my POS truck to pass smog so I can drive it.

Pro's of doing fawking with it:
1. I only paid $50 for it, so i don't care if I screw it up.
2. It's been a deer gun, so it is already scratched and dinged up
3. Savages are pretty easy to change calibers and barrels on, so I could change it up.
4. Black "sniper" rifles scare liberals in Kalifornia.
5.It has a factory adjustable trigger (This is the old one, before they had the accu-trigger)


Con's of fawking with it:
1. Tactical Savage parts are harder to come by and more expensive
2. It is a detachable magazine gun, which finding a standard stock with the magazine release button on the side damn near impossible (I think ATI makes one, yuck)
3. I'm fucking with my back up deer gun.

So any thoughts, ideas, wanna call me a dumb shit???

dumb shit :flipoff2:

It should not be hard at all.. lots of parts available for the gun.. the savage is very modular and easy to modify.. stocks, triggers, barrels.. there was a cool right up on sniper central where they took a 200 stevens savage and built a well below moa rifle for under $800 with paint and all

I am in the process of doing this to my 10 (.308) right now.
Bell and carlson stock, medalist-full alum. bedding block
shilen select match barrel, no taper, no turn neck
time and trueing the action.

There are lots of parts for the savage.
shilen, douglas, hart
mcmillan, B&C, choate

I will post pics when its all together.

The problem he runs into is it is a J series. J series Savages were bastard children of the line. I know, I have one and had the same thoughts. The bolt measurements for the receiver are a funky distance and they wont drop right into a standard after market Savage stock.

That will be your hardest part. If you can find someone to make the stock for you the rest will be easy.

try sharp shooter supply

Anyone have a spare, non shot-out, savage factory .308 bbl they want to part with?

I might have one, not sure yet.
try savageshooters.net.

If that is the wrong link I will look it up at home, can't access it from work.

I might have one, not sure yet.
try savageshooters.net.

If that is the wrong link I will look it up at home, can't access it from work.

If that's the place I'm thinking of they can kiss my ass. I said I'd buy a bbl from a guy there, but someone else had rogered up first. No problem, he said he got them in from time to time and I had no problem waiting for one. Well they changed the board software and user settings and I REFUSE to pay to retrieve a PM from the guy or see the sellers section.

Well so far the main obstacle is finding a stock. This is the old detachable magazine model, the staggered feeding one. The magazine is held in by the receiver and not the stock. Non of the newer stocks will fit. I may just look for a cheap Stevens 200 and go from there.

http://i125.photobucket.com/albums/p59/hidesertwheelin/Savagemagreleasebutton2.jpg

If that's the place I'm thinking of they can kiss my ass. I said I'd buy a bbl from a guy there, but someone else had rogered up first. No problem, he said he got them in from time to time and I had no problem waiting for one. Well they changed the board software and user settings and I REFUSE to pay to retrieve a PM from the guy or see the sellers section.

Not sure on that but here is the link.
http://savageshooters.com/SavageForum/
people seem pretty cool, a few a a little pretentious.

Hmm, it seems they now allow you to see your PM's again. It was last April when they changed it and I said F-off. Looks like the bbls I want is now up to $165+ Shipping. I only paid $250 for the rifle brand new. :laughing:

I think you should get the truck running and buy my old tires:flipoff2:...
Maybe then I'll let you shoot my savage:flipoff2:

Edit:I have a barrel nut wrench if you ever want to borrow it.

Hmm, it seems they now allow you to see your PM's again. It was last April when they changed it and I said F-off. Looks like the bbls I want is now up to $165+ Shipping. I only paid $250 for the rifle brand new. :laughing:

my new barrel cost a little more than twice that, and it was also more than the gun.

I think you should get the truck running and buy my old tires:flipoff2:...
Maybe then I'll let you shoot my savage:flipoff2:

Edit:I have a barrel nut wrench if you ever want to borrow it.

That's why I am trying to screw this rifle up instead of buying a new one :flipoff2:

I was given a Savage 110c series J 30-06 by my father-in-law. It was in pieces. I had it rebuilt, I added a timminy adjustable trigger, I had the stock glass bedded. It was missing pieces. I payed 264.00 in parts and my gunsmith charged me 150.00 in labor to repair it. Now it shoots sub MOA. I can't and won't complain. You can find your stock..made by choate on brownells website. They have tactical stocks for about 250.00 give or take. www.brownells.com