Modifying a Savage 10FLP.....

Sixgill

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Hi guys,

I just got my hands on a .223 Savage.

Took it out to the range to zero it and test fire, so far so good.

Back home and im starting to play:

-adding weight to the butt stock (it really was nose heavy to begin with)

-then i had to modify my Warne Rail mount (it was for a right hand action)

-next i was adding padding to the rear stock to get a correct cheek weld

I am also contemplating bedding the action (Devcon is in hand) and i figure the worst thing i can do is accelerate my aftermarket stock purchase.

So after popping out the action from the stock i get the first look at how the blind magazine is orientated and connected.....and it looks really close to my Lar10 magazine. Attempting to make this work will require me to get my die grinder out and cut out .050" of either side of the bottom of the "receiver" to make the Lar10 magazine fit.

After that i would have to mock up the magazine catch/release etc.

Has anyone else played with this idea?? Or am i on the verge of destroying a perfectly good rifle?
 
I had the same Idea myself. I was thinking of building an AR magwell and mounting it in/on the Savage stock so I could use any AR mag rather than the blind mag.

My Savage 11F is a centre feed and I'm not sure how much of a problem that would be to align "just so". looking at the face of the Savage bolt, there is a lot less clearance for a round to be picked up compared to an AR bolt.

The other option the boys and I threw around was build a magwell and mod an AR mag to a centrefeed matching the Savage setup (but then the mag is only good for the Savage after modding.)

I also looked at getting the Detatchable mag and frame for other models (mentioned here somewhere) and doing some dremel work to put that on (5 rnd mag though, not 10 like the LAR you're looking at).
 
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