Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Gunsmithing Bergara Barrels for M-700 with barrel nut

Anyone know about or have any experince with these barrels? Apaarently they have come up with a method similary to the Savage process for swaping barrels. Any info would be great thanks.

Not certain if you are asking specifically about Bergara, but Pac-nor and Criterion both have the same system. The concept seems to becoming more popular. IIRC, Criterion calls theirs a Remage or something similar. The only difficulty with a Rem. VS Savage I see, is to properly align the recoil lug on the Rem.

There are several inexpensive tools which will hold the recoil lug in the proper orientation.

This is kinda funny because I try to change my "nutted" Savage barrels to "nutless", ala Rem700.

LIke2shoot,

Thanks for the info didnt know that others were doing this as well. Was researching replacements barrels for a M-700 project and read about the Bergaras. Ill check out the other companys as well.


Any anyone used this method of rebarreling?

thanks

Everyone who's swapped a Savage or a Stevens barrel has used that method.

The nutted 700 works precisely like it does on a Savage.

It is a good system for headspacing which doesn't require machine time or skill.

I think these nutted barrels look like hell but they do make it easy to swap barrels for the person with no lathe.

Since I recycle a lot of Remington 700 barrels, I bought a Kleinendorst barrel tool from Brownells to keep the recoil lug properly aligned.

Brownells part # 488-004-700 for the factory specs recoil lug, they also have the make for Holland and Tubb recoil lugs.

Jeff

Shilen's new rifle and receiver is based on a 700 with the Savage nut. Their bolt also uses the Savage bolt head.

I bought one for a Remington 700 action. I was building a custom .22-250 A.I. with a Pac-Nor barrel that also uses the Pac-Nor Rem-nut, but delivery time was about five months, so I bought a Bergara stainless varmint contour in .22-250 just to try one. Bergara had one in stock and it arrived in less than a week.

The Bergara product works just as advertised. While the Pac-Nor uses a nut that accepts the Savage barrel nut wrench and thick aftermarket recoil lugs, the Bergara uses a smooth nut and only accepts the standard OEM recoil lug. You need a Rigid Strap Wrench (1" wide) to tighten the nut. I have Remington recoil lug positioning tools, and the action wrench that retains the OEM lug, so that's not a problem. I installed it using a set of headspace gauges in about fifteen minutes.

The barrel shot right at .5" for 10 shot groups at 100 yards. I am confident that if I spend more time developing a load this barrel is capable of better accuracy. If this one barrel is any indication of Bergara quality, they are a good deal.



Above: Top barrel is Pac-Nor with their Savage type grooved nut. The recoil lug is a .250" thick double pinned Gre-Tan lug. With pinned lugs a locator tool isn't needed. Also use of the Gre-Tan lug for stocks with bedding blocks, means they fit without inletting (this is a Bell&Carlson M-3 SKU 1000 stock)

Bottom barrel is a Bergara varmint contour in .22-250 Remington with the Bergara smooth nut. This barrel will only accept the standard .185" thick OEM recoil lug.

Brownell's sells a "Kliendorst lug locator" to locate the recoil lug on 700's.

I went Montana Barrel co. (IIRC) for mine. Super accurate. Had to buy the nut separate.

I bought the remington barrel nut from pacnor $72.00 that fit the savage wrench and threaded the remington barrels myself.
I have 12 extra remington barrels now of 12 different calibers.

Below is a pretty good thread about the Remage system and a few
photos on how it is done:

http://savageshooters.com/SavageForum/index.php/topic,42821.0.html