Not your Average Savage.....
 

Got this build done a few days ago, and am pretty happy with it despite being a crappy old '06 chambering.

For a while, it bemy "Everything Bigger Than a Deer Rifle".

Details:


1:10 22" Douglas, Rem 700, Cerekoted with Sniper Gray and treated with UBC on all the internals....

Leupy 3X9 with ele turret, BC caps, mounted in Talley LW's...

Kevlar mountain, routed out for BDL configuration, bedded, floated, and gray tinted Marine Tex "sponge" texture(which was a PITA and had to do itover again and quicker,to get it all to match) plus two coats of matte clear.

Load is a 168 TSX over RL19 in Lapua hulls...2995 fps.

Shoots to 1/2 MOA verifiedout to 500 in it's wood stock,off pods and a back pack, all year long, BTW.

All up it now weighs "light".

It ain't your off the shelfAverage Savage................

Sorry no fancy suburian deck with an interstate in the backgroundto pose it on, so the creekup back will hafta do.......

RE: Not your Average Savage.....
 

Nice looking gun and the pic is brilliant!

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Jumped down it that creek to snap the pic,and splashed all that water on it....

Spent about 2 1/4 seconds thinkin', dang, it allgot wet..........

Laffin'...

RE: Not your Average Savage.....
 

Great looking rifle! Seems to be one problem though; the bolt is on the wrong side!:D

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Been a southpaw all my life and have had my share of right hand rifles own me. Learned a long time ago to shoot both hands but much prefer to just go with the genetic preference, if allowed the time and movement. Sourcing gear being the only drawback, but canmake do with what I can build...

Sometimes I get lucky with wrongly engineered right handed stuff, like my worm gear Craftsman circular saw, and the load gate being on the "right" side of my Ruger BH .45 LC...easy for a quick flick of the left thumb.

I do crave a left handed bolt driven inline muzzleloader tho'.....and much wish my customed 77/50 wasn't right handed.

Thanks for the compliment tho', this has been a worthwhile project.

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Of course it isnt, it's missing the accurizing barrel nut and tang saftey.;)

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Too funny.......

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Looks great. So what's wrong with a crappy '06? Congrats.

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Have you got a pic of your customized 77/50?
The o6 looks great

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I've never found a thing wrong with an '06 chambering, but it's not a popular andsexy short mag either......

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Yeah, I'll hafta dig around in Photobucket and find one......

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Here's a few of the 77/50....

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A couple more...

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A peak at the checkering, when I started it.....

There's more somewhere,but their buried........

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Been asked for a closeup of the finish, and method/material used on the 30-06......

Stock was sanded down which removed the paint and texture that it came to me with. This stock had been ridden pretty hard and had a few gouges and scratches to be fixed. The original plan was to just paint it but after doing the routing work for the bottom metal, ADL to BDL, it was apparent that some depth was needed for the height of the mag box to work properly without binding the action,so I built up the area with Marine Tex. That left me no choice but to redo a texture on it. After"bedding" in the bottom metal, which was after bedding the actionand floating the barrel, I washed the stock down with rubbing alcohol, and applied a thin coat of Marine Tex using a notched trowel. The MarineTexused was the gray version, which is almost black right out of the can. Being too dark for my liking, I tinted it down to the gray color it is now with white 2 part epoxy.

After troweling it on I usedthe sponge out of a TSX box to "dab and pull" the entire wet stock. On the first go round, the Marine Tex started to cure and from butt to forend didn't match in texture. So after it cured completely,I resanded it a bit and devised a plan to get it all done a little quicker. After mixing enough tintedMarine Texthe second time, I put it in the freezer for afew minutes to get it cold and slow down it's cure rate.This allowed me to get it all on evenly, or at least to my satisfaction, and sponge it out with all the same texture.

After it cured out the second time, I took some 000 steel wool and a piece of brillo pad and knocked down the sharp points to give it the smoothbumpy feel it now has. Then, after a good washing with rubbing alcohol, I sprayed two coats of Matte Clear Coat by Rustoleum. The whole thing is a very tough finish that should last for a long time.

It took about an hour or so to coat it and texture it the second time. The second coat of Matte Clear was sprayed on while the first coat was still a little tacky. The Marine Tex will be my choice again for bedding and texturing. It looks a little glossy in the pic because the strong light in my reloading room is shining directly on it for a good picture. In natural light it's quite non glossy.