Re: Savage actions, Where to buy?
While I would put my faith in anything that's worked on by SSS, our experience with the Ghost Dancer project back at the beginning of this decade gave me a very strong belief that Savage actions come from the factory in mighty fine conformity to spec.
Our three actions received direct from Savage, and another randomly selected from one of our own gun cabinets, were carefully guaged according to spec, and in four out of four cases, the opinion was that they really didn't need any work. Our machinist being who and what he was, he did the work anyway, and said that he was so impressed with the thread work that he was concerned it might come out less true than it had started out. He is an industrial master R&D machinist who has literally an entire major corporation's R&D machine tool facility at his desposal, including high quality borescope and electron microscopy equipment.
He also said that by comparison, Remington actions he'd worked on were nowhere near as true as Savage factory work.
I will generally keep such anecdotes to myself, as they constitute far too small a set of imstances to have any real statistical meaning. I also feel it is not my place to give commentary which might disparage the work of folks who do things I could never accomplish by myself. In this case, I simply felt that my own views were simply far too much in agreement with much else I had experienced and heard to leave them out of the dialogue.
I own Savage, Remington, Winchester, and Ruger bolt guns. I think they are all both capable and reliable enough to recommend to others, but for my own purposes, my anticipation would be for me to make my next rifle purchase a Savage.
Greg
