Your plan is to buy a cheap rifle (by cheap I mean price, they actually look like a decent rifle) and then put a new barrel on it and end up costing more than you could have bought a better rifle for in the first place.
But what fun is that to a rifle looney? Maybe I want a switch barrel rifle I can do the work on with little investment in tools, or want to build a .260 AI or 338/06 and don't want to pay a 'smith for a rebarrel job.
The Savage is an easy rifle to work on because of the barrel nut. The Marlin X7s are almost as easy but some Savage prefits need a little faced off the breech to work on the Marlin. I knew when I saw the Ruger American that it might be another good candidate for the home tinkerer.
