Closing a mag well on a carbon fibre stock

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So I have a lightweight mountain hunting rifle. It is a savage 110 lightweight storm that I put in a stockys carbon fibre stock. Rifle shoots and carries great. The only thing I was not happy with was the detachable magazine system. I would prefer a blind magazine with no floor plate like the kimber mountain ascent.

A couple of days ago I was staking mule deer on a high ridge in the snow and was having a hard time chambering a round. Found that the rear magazine retention tab (plastic) broke off and had the rear end my magazine sitting a bit low.
This was less than ideal in the thick grizzly bear country of the kootenays.

I was wondering what you all would do to close that magazine well off to put a blind magazine in this thing.

I love working on guns and learning new stuff so I will probably take on the task myself. Not interested in doing the logical thing, selling the savage and buying a kimber or weatherby backcountry.

Thanks in advance for any advice.
 
You have or a friend have similar savage with trap door bottom metal. If possible could do a swap and see it will fit and function before moving on this project
 
Maybe replace that plastic part with a Spring-metal tab ? And contact Stockys about this problem - they may already have a solution ?
 
Buck1950 said:
Maybe replace that plastic part with a Spring-metal tab ? And contact Stockys about this problem - they may already have a solution ?
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Yea the spring metal tab is definitely a good idea. Stockys didn’t even have bottom metal and I had to get it from Boyd’s. I doubt that there would be a solution other than new bottom metal.

The depth of that sock has the bottom metal sitting kind of deep in the opening after I got the action sitting where it should. It leaves kind of a sharp nasty line around the magwell. I would also like to get rid of that. Can’t run the bottom metal any lower or the bolt won’t strip cartridges out of the magazine.

Bottom line is I don’t like the savage detatchable magazine system and don’t want to get an aftermarket one to add a bunch of metal to a lightweight rifle.
 
I have a Sav-12 with the 'flush-fit' mag and I find it difficult to open and close. I have a Rem 722 that was 're-built' with an aftermarket Drop-mag that will accept AICS mags and I find it quite functional. You'd have to check to see if these are 'user-install' or would need a gunsmith to make it work if you tried it.

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Buck1950 said:
I have a Sav-12 with the 'flush-fit' mag and I find it difficult to open and close. I have a Rem 722 that was 're-built' with an aftermarket Drop-mag that will accept AICS mags and I find it quite functional. You'd have to check to see if these are 'user-install' or would need a gunsmith to make it work if you tried it.

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Yea I would go for that but this is a backpacking rifle that I use for mountain hunting like the kind of hunts where every ounce really matters. Maybe I can find something a little lighter but similar to that.

Nice looking rifles!
 
Yes, the repl assy is all heavy plastic, but not 'that heavy' - not metal hardly anywhere, and so are the mags. Here's closer shot of the drop-mag on the 722. It's a 1960 model.
And there are mags with only 3-shots that are more flush - this one is a 5-shot. The repl assy with one mag runs about $150 or so. MagPul that are made for many rifles, I believe. I don't know if this would fit in your Stockys easily, depends on if You are handy with a Dremel :rolleyes:
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Buck1950 said:
Yes, the repl assy is all heavy plastic, but not 'that heavy' - not metal hardly anywhere, and so are the mags. Here's closer shot of the drop-mag on the 722. It's a 1960 model.
And there are mags with only 3-shots that are more flush - this one is a 5-shot. The repl assy with one mag runs about $150 or so. MagPul that are made for many rifles, I believe. I don't know if this would fit in your Stockys easily, depends on if You are handy with a Dremel :rolleyes:
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Oh man that would be a good option. I’m looking at them and none of them that I have found so far will fit a savage 110 with the bottom bolt release they all work with the 110 that has the bolt release on the top. Be pretty hard by the looks of it to modify.

Dremel work is not an issue. The stocky stocks need a lot of inleting compared to other stocks I have bought. I went to town on it with a dremel.
 
Found that the MDT bottom metal has an opening to access the bolt release. I’m gonna give that a go. It’s not heavy. Also when I pulled the rifle apart I found that my trigger guard was cracked in 2 places…so I ordered bottom metal.
 
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