Savage heavy duty barrel nut wrench.

I asked a while ago on the savage shooters forum (They are a sponsor) and the answer is no way The guy answering did not have a good opinion of Canada. But you can try I was trying to get a prefit barrel for a Savage
 
Why do you need such a heavy duty wrench?

My regular 1/4" has served me well for a couple of builds, it's removed factory nuts with no signs of wear.
 
Buster95 said:
I have the Wheeler wrench but I never used it, I'm still waiting for my barrel.
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Start with that and see what happens. The barrel nut doesn't need 60+ ft/lbs of torque, so you shouldn't need a heavy wrench.
As long as the barrel is in a tight vice and will not rotate, your Wheeler will do the trick for the first removal, sometimes a little opposing rotational force is needed on the action also, an action wrench of course is ideal but even a hardwood dowel through the action is enough and won't marr anything.
 
jonh172 said:
Start with that and see what happens. The barrel nut doesn't need 60+ ft/lbs of torque, so you shouldn't need a heavy wrench.
As long as the barrel is in a tight vice and will not rotate, your Wheeler will do the trick for the first removal, sometimes a little opposing rotational force is needed on the action also, an action wrench of course is ideal but even a hardwood dowel through the action is enough and won't marr anything.
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I will make the barrel wrench myself but are you sure there is no risk to damage the receiver with the hardwood dowel?
 
Buster95 said:
I will make the barrel wrench myself but are you sure there is no risk to damage the receiver with the hardwood dowel?
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For sure, keep the dowel forward and you'll break it before hurting anything on the receiver.

But if you're barrel vice is tight enough you don't need to do anything to the receiver.
 
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