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<blockquote data-quote=".300 Dakota" data-source="post: 2238031" data-attributes="member: 106514"><p>Go to Academy or any Walmarts near you that still sell guns and buy a new or slightly used short action Savage with plastic stock. Can really be an Axis or an older Model 11, 16, etc. All you need is a barrel vise and an action wrench (I highly recommend a Defiance .700 rear entry), and a nut wrench for a 1x spend and you can sell them for most of what you paid of you choose not to keep them when you're done. Doesn't matter what caliber you pick, so long as it has a .473" bolt face (you can replace the bolt head for different sized faces, but you may have to replace baffles, also, and the brand new stuff doesn't track 100% with the older stuff, and some of it might not be available to buy. Better get it as close to what you need as possible). Go online and have Boyd's start on you a stock of your chosen design, call James at Northland Shooters Supply and tell him to send you a Criterion barrel in the .243 AI (he has them in the twist you want) with headspace gauges (atvleast a go gauge. You can cut a piece of Scotch tape to fit the head of the go gauge and use it as a no go.) Set your headspace the width of the piece of tape, get James to send you a trued barrel nut, also and a trued recoil lug unless you get an Axis, in which case it isn't needed. Get a small bottle of gray MarineTex epoxy for the Model 11 type (may not need any for the Axis), install the barrel good and tight on your action, bed it (or not for Axis) with MarineTex, and go shoot tiny bugholes...[ATTACH=full]284635[/ATTACH][ATTACH=full]284636[/ATTACH]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE=".300 Dakota, post: 2238031, member: 106514"] Go to Academy or any Walmarts near you that still sell guns and buy a new or slightly used short action Savage with plastic stock. Can really be an Axis or an older Model 11, 16, etc. All you need is a barrel vise and an action wrench (I highly recommend a Defiance .700 rear entry), and a nut wrench for a 1x spend and you can sell them for most of what you paid of you choose not to keep them when you're done. Doesn't matter what caliber you pick, so long as it has a .473" bolt face (you can replace the bolt head for different sized faces, but you may have to replace baffles, also, and the brand new stuff doesn't track 100% with the older stuff, and some of it might not be available to buy. Better get it as close to what you need as possible). Go online and have Boyd's start on you a stock of your chosen design, call James at Northland Shooters Supply and tell him to send you a Criterion barrel in the .243 AI (he has them in the twist you want) with headspace gauges (atvleast a go gauge. You can cut a piece of Scotch tape to fit the head of the go gauge and use it as a no go.) Set your headspace the width of the piece of tape, get James to send you a trued barrel nut, also and a trued recoil lug unless you get an Axis, in which case it isn't needed. Get a small bottle of gray MarineTex epoxy for the Model 11 type (may not need any for the Axis), install the barrel good and tight on your action, bed it (or not for Axis) with MarineTex, and go shoot tiny bugholes...[ATTACH type="full"]284635[/ATTACH][ATTACH type="full"]284636[/ATTACH] [/QUOTE]
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