Back in the day I bought several Savage 12FV specials from Cabela's and built some fun rifles out of the actions. I had some parts laying around and decided to have a 16" 6.5 Creed barrel spun up. I was looking at using my older Lapua SRP brass and pushing up the pressures a bit.
Now Savages are known to crater primers as you start loading hot. It's not a problem until you start blanking primers. So I decided to have my bolt bushed and the pin ground down. Deshind.com did the work and I could not be happier with how it turned out.
He turned the pin down to 62 thou, drilled out the bolt face, inserted a plug, and then drilled it to just barely over the pin size. And while he was at it he trued up both sides of the bolt lugs. I took it back out today with the same load and the results are outstanding....virtually no cratering like my custom actions. It did open up my headspace by 4-5 thou but I cracked the barrel nut off and fixed that up in 15 min.
If you have cratering in your primers I can recommend this as a pretty cheap way to fix it...
Now Savages are known to crater primers as you start loading hot. It's not a problem until you start blanking primers. So I decided to have my bolt bushed and the pin ground down. Deshind.com did the work and I could not be happier with how it turned out.
He turned the pin down to 62 thou, drilled out the bolt face, inserted a plug, and then drilled it to just barely over the pin size. And while he was at it he trued up both sides of the bolt lugs. I took it back out today with the same load and the results are outstanding....virtually no cratering like my custom actions. It did open up my headspace by 4-5 thou but I cracked the barrel nut off and fixed that up in 15 min.
If you have cratering in your primers I can recommend this as a pretty cheap way to fix it...
