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Friend of mine who is a, shall we say, 'interesting character' who likes rifles and hunting but knows just enough to be dangerous (literally), acquired a custom Savage action rifle with a 29" long, SS, heavy varmint profile barrel of unknown make stamped only "6.5 RUM" (and Hogue stock, muzzle brake, and Vortex Viper).
After I told him not to buy (but he did), and then that he would never find ammo online (which he couldn't), and so on, he ended up finding a gunsmith in S.C. who will make him some reloads - see below if you're interested in that sidebar. **
Long story short, he's gonna be paying around $500 or more for 80 rounds of ammo when it's all said and done.... so in the meantime, I told him to forget it; just have the barrel cut off or turned down 1/2" (whatever it's called), and rechambered to .26 Nosler so he can buy factory ammo online, or pretty much any .264 chambering except the absurdly overbore 6.5 RUM (and explained that it's probably already shot out anyway and there's plenty of barrel length left, etc.).
But a respected local gunsmith evidently told him that for some reason, you can't turn down / set back the barrel and re-thread and re-chamber on that particular rifle. I don't understand why this is, however? Is it because of Savage's unique barrel nut system which prevent ordinary setting back and re-chambering in the usual manner, or is the gunsmith full of it (or, much more likely, he misunderstood the gunsmith)?
Thanks.
**So to make ammo, get this: He couldn't find .300 RUM brass online either (out of stock), so he bought 80 rounds of NEW factory .300 RUM ammo, and had it shipped from Midway to him. Next, he's going to re-ship the loaded ammo to the gunsmith in S.C. That gunsmith is going to pull the bullets, dump the powder, swage/re-size to 6.5 RUM, then make the reloads for him, and ship back - all at enormous cost, as you might imagine. My friend is a bit hard-headed, to put it mildly. Mind you, for eastern woods whitetails.... He doesn't target shoot - just for hunting...lol. And he has a couple dozen other rifles, all for hunting, in many many chamberings, both common and obscure.
Friend of mine who is a, shall we say, 'interesting character' who likes rifles and hunting but knows just enough to be dangerous (literally), acquired a custom Savage action rifle with a 29" long, SS, heavy varmint profile barrel of unknown make stamped only "6.5 RUM" (and Hogue stock, muzzle brake, and Vortex Viper).
After I told him not to buy (but he did), and then that he would never find ammo online (which he couldn't), and so on, he ended up finding a gunsmith in S.C. who will make him some reloads - see below if you're interested in that sidebar. **
Long story short, he's gonna be paying around $500 or more for 80 rounds of ammo when it's all said and done.... so in the meantime, I told him to forget it; just have the barrel cut off or turned down 1/2" (whatever it's called), and rechambered to .26 Nosler so he can buy factory ammo online, or pretty much any .264 chambering except the absurdly overbore 6.5 RUM (and explained that it's probably already shot out anyway and there's plenty of barrel length left, etc.).
But a respected local gunsmith evidently told him that for some reason, you can't turn down / set back the barrel and re-thread and re-chamber on that particular rifle. I don't understand why this is, however? Is it because of Savage's unique barrel nut system which prevent ordinary setting back and re-chambering in the usual manner, or is the gunsmith full of it (or, much more likely, he misunderstood the gunsmith)?
Thanks.
**So to make ammo, get this: He couldn't find .300 RUM brass online either (out of stock), so he bought 80 rounds of NEW factory .300 RUM ammo, and had it shipped from Midway to him. Next, he's going to re-ship the loaded ammo to the gunsmith in S.C. That gunsmith is going to pull the bullets, dump the powder, swage/re-size to 6.5 RUM, then make the reloads for him, and ship back - all at enormous cost, as you might imagine. My friend is a bit hard-headed, to put it mildly. Mind you, for eastern woods whitetails.... He doesn't target shoot - just for hunting...lol. And he has a couple dozen other rifles, all for hunting, in many many chamberings, both common and obscure.