Yes there were no holes in the receiver of a 112V. I may have your old Savage 22/250. Or one identical to it. Now a 6.5/284.
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/1995218-My-Savage-112-Series-J-Project
Sportco Model 44 target rifle
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Yes there were no holes in the receiver of a 112V. I may have your old Savage 22/250. Or one identical to it. Now a 6.5/284.
https://www.canadiangunnutz.com/forum/showthread.php/1995218-My-Savage-112-Series-J-Project
Quite a few years ago at Connaught, I was talking with a competitor who was shooting a rifle he had built. I believe he made a tubular receiver, fitted with the breech of a Sportco barrel, and a matching Sportco bolthead. The Sportco design lends itself to such projects.
When CIL ordered the Savage rifles, they specified the Canadian military rifle chamber, which had a fairly short throat - well suited to the 147 gr military bullet used by DCRA shooters. The military donated free ammo. But Savage was thinking that a single-shot target rifle should have a longer throat more compatible for the Sierra 168 MatchKing - a popular American match bullet. They also had liability concerns about using a non-SAAMI chamber. So Savage shipped the rifles with their standard SAAMI chamber.
The DCRA shooters immediately discovered that the rifles did not do well with military ammo. But they also discovered it was a tack driver with handloaded 168s. Which were not allowed in DCRA matches.
So CIL let a contract to Walther for 200 barrels chambered with a military type chamber. These shoot milsurp ammo very well. They are high quality barrels that can be handloaded with any bullet you want. I have one on a 950T I rechambered to 300Mag.
The Sportco can be used with either military or commercial brass. If you want accuracy, use commercial brass all of the same brand and lot #.
The Sportco rifle can have poor primary extraction. Look at the bolt handle and see that as you life the handle, it is supposed to hit a cam section on the receiver. On many rifles, the bolt clears that cam without touching, so nothing pops the case loose. If I had a Sportco like that, I would put a dab of weld on the bolt handle and file it to fit and hit the cam.
The Sportco has a very solid receiver. Much thicker than the Remington it resembles.
The 950T has no magazine cut out, so it beds beautifully. I used to complain to Savage that the single shot rifle should not have the top of the receiver open. It would be a stiffer action if it just had a loading port. One day they contacted me and said the were re-engineering the rifle and were willing to make it with a loading port, and asked me to send them some designs to look at. I sent them pictures of a Musgrave, a Wichita and a Paramount. Then they sent me 20 prototypes to evaluate, which a distributed to shooters. They then made changes in response to our feedback. The result was the Savage Palma rifle.
Interesting, I like how Savage stamped “Made in USA” proudly on the J series actions ordered by CIL but didn’t have that stamped on their J series rifles built at the same time for their Model 112’s.
The one I used had a Central rear sight
The Central sight has a slot in the side the aperture tube. You can see the slot in the picture. There is supposed to be a little bar in there with three different sized holes. There is a detent to hold the slider in the position you select. The eye ring screws down to lock it tight.
The sight in the picture is missing the slider.
If anyone needs a Central or Parker Hale sight, i have some extras.
