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That you throw a box full of parts up in the air and they come down a rifle? I'm getting all the parts together for my 1915 250-3000. Gary dropped off the last piece, the barrel lug for the take down. The lug tapped in nice and snug. So, what I have is a 1915 action, a 1916 stock set, and a 1930's 250 barrel. Before I got the 1916 stock set I tried the 30's barrel in the original 1915 forearm, and it was way too big. Then the 1916 stock set arrived and the barrel channel was visually bigger. I assume this is when they changed contours? The barrel seemed to fit perfect. Put it all together this morning and the barrel stands way proud of the channel. Inside the forearm someone drilled and inserted two round dowels, then contoured them to a barrel. They were holding the barrel up. Took a Dremel Drum Sander and sanded the dowels down flush with the bottom of the channel. Popped the forearm back on, better, but still proud. Looks like I might have to open up the whole channel a little. Then just for kicks, I stuck my 24" Westfield 22 HP barrel on it. It fits absolutely perfect. This might turn into a 22 HP, iwth all the perks of an early 250, version one. [img] https://i.imgur.com/G16FGFy.jpg?1[/img] [img] https://i.imgur.com/NV1SzPj.jpg?1[/img] The last pic is the 24" Westfield barrel. My conclusion is, you can not throw a bunch of parts up in the air and have them come down a functioning gun, like all things Savage, it still takes some hand fitting.
I'm not greedy, I just want one of each.
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... well, I s'pose You chances are better than if you threw the box out the window..
Good For You Joe! TinkerBells abide! I'd love to see and hear more on attaching the takedown lug to a Westfield barrel.
Your parts description sounds like that Johnny Cash song about building a lunchbox Cadillac!
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Congrats! I can only imagine the amount of time to research and accumulate all of the parts necessary to put this together.
When you are finished, maybe you could fully document the process telling how you were able to determine what would fit together and how you went about acquiring all of the pieces.
Very impressive.
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Hold my beer and I'll tell ya!
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HAHA, I told Forrest that I only had about an hour in it all together in a PM. I did leave out the part of you searching for several years.
I'm not greedy, I just want one of each.
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keep us posted on your progress, it seems like an interesting project
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