Savage AICS DBM choices?

[Kaldor]

Building a new stock for my old Savage 308. Right now it sits in a Boyds Pro Varmint I bedded it into 10 year ago, which while serviceable, is a bit short for LOP and I just dont care for how it tracks under recoil. I pulled some really heavily figured cherry and some curly maple off the shelf and glued up a nice blank. My original game plan was to just reuse the stock Savage DBM and factory mags, mostly because they are old school blued steel, and I kind wanted to keep this rifle looking old school other than the SSTL Criterion barrel it currently has. Also plan on adding in some LRI pillars (will require a bit of modification to work with a Savage) and the LRI cheek riser. However, after looking at how the factory profile of the inlet, I decided I want to increase the thickness of the inlet under the front action screw as wood stocks are prone to cracking in front of the magwell. I also plan on a crossbolt in the front and rear of the magwell to help with that.

So other than the Savage factory part and Atlasworx, does anyone know of anything else? Im looking at the profile of the Savage and it looks really wide in comparison the Atlasworx which I think will cause issues with inletting as I dont want that wider and rounder profile of it.

 

[steve101610]

PTG is also an option

 

[Kaldor]

PTG is also an option

I considered that, but PTG is always a crap shoot for QC and you might wait 60 days to get what you ordered.

I do need to touch base with Atlasworx to see if they have an inlet drawing to see what they call for from bottom of action to top of DBM distance as I dont believe any of these options have adjustable mag catches.

 

[Kaldor]

I did get a drawing back from Atlasworx and mag height can be modified with a couple of positions. So I ordered that. Also ordered a couple of MDT AICS mags without the binder plate. Between the drawing, having the DBM and mags in hand, I should be able to figure out the inlet pretty easily.