stagpanther
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Since I received notice from preferred barrel blanks that my barrel should be shipping soon, I have started the wheels in motion to get parts together. The 25 PRC is still a wildcat, so parts and components involve some improvising. First things first, I chose a savage 110 receiver as a base, and a year ago I had bought a synthetic stock 110 from buds in 280AI and as usual didn't read the fine print (or maybe there wasn't any to begin with) and didn't notice it had both a bottom bolt release and smooth barrel barrel nut--along with savage's teensie extractor-- my least favorite aspects of their firearms and really wish they would improve or get rid of altogether.
I tried spinning off the action with an action wrench--but that didn't work because the barrel nut just spun along with the action eventually locking it, so plan B was to put the action in a receiver vise and use a pipe wrench on the barrel nut. That worked easily and the nut came right off, though distorting it but who cares, I would never reuse it anyway.
Because of the accutrigger's bottom bolt release and the likelihood I'll run the COL's of the cartridges pretty long (and also the fact I already have one)-- I decided to base the build in an MDT chassis which dispenses with the bottom bolt release silliness in a savage for the simple side slot and the ability to load cartridges long in an AICS magazine.
Be it ever so humble, here is the start:
I tried spinning off the action with an action wrench--but that didn't work because the barrel nut just spun along with the action eventually locking it, so plan B was to put the action in a receiver vise and use a pipe wrench on the barrel nut. That worked easily and the nut came right off, though distorting it but who cares, I would never reuse it anyway.
Because of the accutrigger's bottom bolt release and the likelihood I'll run the COL's of the cartridges pretty long (and also the fact I already have one)-- I decided to base the build in an MDT chassis which dispenses with the bottom bolt release silliness in a savage for the simple side slot and the ability to load cartridges long in an AICS magazine.
Be it ever so humble, here is the start: