Cabela’s Savage 12FV

[squirrel_slayer]

Originally Posted by Dan Brothers

my friend and I bought that same special last month in a 6.5 caliber, which are very good so far.

Question...??? If I bought one in 204, how much trouble would it be to turn it into a 20 Vartarg...?

to my knowledge the savage action isn't fireball friendly. it will chuck the case off before clearing the ejection port. now if you do like me and remove the ejector you can just pluck the case off by hand.

I've heard of people modifying the ejector length, springs, yada yada to get them to halfway work but I have no first hand experience here.

now of the good side all you have to do is screw on a barrel and your set as far as that is concerned. very easy to smith the savages in your garage.

it is possible depending how much meat is left in front of the barrel nut that you could get lucky with setting the barrel back and re-chambering it into 20vartag but unless you have your own lathe or a buddy who does your likely better served by just buying a prechambered barrel to screw on.

[GLWenzl]

I’m thinking that 9 twist 223... run in a 22 Remington mag reamer and shoot the 75 gr long range bullets

Or the 6.5 also has me excited.

Sometime cheap isn’t cheap though

[moorepower]

I have a .22-.204 reamer and I was thinking the same thing

[squirrel_slayer]

lol we all have the disease. I was thinking along the lines of punching one out to 6.5 gap 4s

[Tackdriver]

I bought one at their black friday sale in 6.5 Creedmoor that I haven't even fired yet. Then I put money down on a Nucleous action. And yet I still find myself thinking about picking up another one of these in 223. Maybe punch it out to 22 Nosler.

[squirrel_slayer]

Originally Posted by Tackdriver

I bought one at their black friday sale in 6.5 Creedmoor that I haven't even fired yet. Then I put money down on a Nucleous action. And yet I still find myself thinking about picking up another one of these in 223. Maybe punch it out to 22 Nosler.

22 nosler is more so for the ar platform due to mag length restrictions and also excels with a 1:8 or faster barrel. I feel it would be cheaper to buy/trade a new bolt face/mag and chamber to a mainstream cartridge like a 22-250 the 1:9 twist would give you more bullet options.

I've also heard a lot of issues of brass quality.

[Dan Brothers]

I think the 223- 9 tw would be good for building a hot rod 22.

My 22-243ai 8 tw shoots 80 amaxes great at 3558 fps... so those 9 tw should pump out a 75.... or something in that order.

Man O Man... that savage special makes me want to run a 22-243AI reamer into one of them to see what it will do...Hmmmmm

I'm thinking I may need a half dozen of these specials....LOL

[moorepower]

I needed that like another hole in my head. .223 soon to be .22-204.

[moorepower]

Just a heads up, I just checked the length of the throat and using Hornady book OAL, a 40 grain Vmax is .030 off the lands. The 53 grain Vmax is only .020 off the lands using the Hornady manual OAL. Both will touch the lands easily when loaded to less than magazine length.

[albertacoyotecaller]

We never get deals like this north of the border.