Shadetree Gunsmithing: Rebarreling a Savage LRP

By Tyler Kee

Many years ago, my father in law bought one of the very first Savage LRPs chambered in .243 WIN. He topped it with a really nice Leupold scope and then started a new position at work that severely interrupted his ability to have free time for shooting. Fast forward a few years, and the rifle was still languishing in his safe. There were precious few factory loadings that the LRP liked, and the ones it did like were not very good at flying out to the 1000 yard line, the primary reason he bought the gun. A rebarrel was in order . . .

Normally, I’m no big advocate of rebarreling a gun willy nilly. Truth of the matter though, the Savages have been notorious for being friendly to the hobbyist gunsmith. Where a Remington 700 patterned bolt gun almost requires a machine shop to work on, the Savages can be disassembled and reassembled with a minimum of tools thanks to their low cost manufacturing processes. That’s not to say the Savages aren’t shooters — they certainly are. Especially when you take their cost into account.

I was in the kitchen at my in law’s extolling the virtues of the various 6.5 …Read the Rest

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