Gents,
I've recently picked up a Savage 93-E heavy barrel 17HMR that's getting redone to hopefully improve accuracy.
I'm ditching the shit-ass tupperware stock the FV models come with and getting a McMillan HTG. I know... I'm nuts for putting such a stock on a Savage rimfire. But hey, it's fun to push the limit of things sometimes!
I need to get a DIP 93-E rail but I'm a bit confused on the trigger guard and bottom metal.
Would the DIP "Bottom Metal Action Screw "Kit" for plastic stocks" (<-- link) be the bottom metal of choice to replace that ultra-thin chincy metal on the stock Savages? They also have the "for wood stocks" which I'm not sure I'd need.
And then the Trigger Guard which is the correct one yes?
Now here's a question for you more knowledgeable folk. When ordering the McMillan stock I can have the aluminum pillars molded in. I'm not going to be torquing it down hardcore, but it's nice so the stock doesn't compress at all.
My 93E has "pillars" already since there's nothing to the tupperware stock. When I say "pillars" I mean, the action screws screw into these pillars that you can apparently take out with a 3mm allen wrench.
I'm not sure if the DIP action screws circumvent these so I have an actual screw going from bottom metal to receiver vs. these two-screw setups.
McMillan said I would need to send in my barreled action to get fitted into the stock, as I guess 93E's cause them some grief when inletting?
Since this rifle is a hunting rifle, the bluing often has rust issues when the weather gets crappy as I've noticed on my buddies 93 so I'm having it Cerakoted along with the top rail and bottom metal pieces.
These guns are great out of the box aside from the crappy stocks and the Boyd's stocks just don't do it for me since they're wood. I'm hoping to leave it stock for now while I order the stock to test accuracy and to make sure there are no issues like the guys with the 22LR TR models are reporting
JS
I've recently picked up a Savage 93-E heavy barrel 17HMR that's getting redone to hopefully improve accuracy.
I'm ditching the shit-ass tupperware stock the FV models come with and getting a McMillan HTG. I know... I'm nuts for putting such a stock on a Savage rimfire. But hey, it's fun to push the limit of things sometimes!
I need to get a DIP 93-E rail but I'm a bit confused on the trigger guard and bottom metal.
Would the DIP "Bottom Metal Action Screw "Kit" for plastic stocks" (<-- link) be the bottom metal of choice to replace that ultra-thin chincy metal on the stock Savages? They also have the "for wood stocks" which I'm not sure I'd need.
And then the Trigger Guard which is the correct one yes?
Now here's a question for you more knowledgeable folk. When ordering the McMillan stock I can have the aluminum pillars molded in. I'm not going to be torquing it down hardcore, but it's nice so the stock doesn't compress at all.
My 93E has "pillars" already since there's nothing to the tupperware stock. When I say "pillars" I mean, the action screws screw into these pillars that you can apparently take out with a 3mm allen wrench.
I'm not sure if the DIP action screws circumvent these so I have an actual screw going from bottom metal to receiver vs. these two-screw setups.
McMillan said I would need to send in my barreled action to get fitted into the stock, as I guess 93E's cause them some grief when inletting?
Since this rifle is a hunting rifle, the bluing often has rust issues when the weather gets crappy as I've noticed on my buddies 93 so I'm having it Cerakoted along with the top rail and bottom metal pieces.
These guns are great out of the box aside from the crappy stocks and the Boyd's stocks just don't do it for me since they're wood. I'm hoping to leave it stock for now while I order the stock to test accuracy and to make sure there are no issues like the guys with the 22LR TR models are reporting
JS
