Savage Barrels

Bits of Pieces said:
Swamp, we sell barrel blanks and can also supply barrels that are threaded and long or short chambered.

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Long chambered?
Do you really get much call for barrels with chambers that are over the max?


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If a barrel is long chambered, you need a lathe to fit it, but do not need a reamer - if you are careful. The Savage is one of the very few designs where a barrel with a finished chamber - based on depth from the barrel face - can be installed without any machine work.
 
To go a bit further - there are a number of considerations. The barrel/bolt nose clearance must be correct. This is related to shank length if the barrel has a shoulder. Then, of course, headspace from breech face to datum point in the chamber has to be right. The beauty of the Savage system, as designed by Brewer and refined by Greenleaf is that there is no barrel shoulder, the chamber can be finish reamed without an need for fitting to a specific action and boltnose/barrel clearance and headspace are guaranteed when the barrel is screwed in on gauge and the barrel nut tightened. Another significant manufacturing advantage is that the Savage system barrels can be manufactured from smaller diameter steel bars. If there is a shoulder on the barrel, a larger billet is needed. If you are making 100s of thousands of barrels the material and machine time savings are substantial. No. 4 Lee Enfields used timed barrel threads and a finished chamber, with headspace being set using boltheads of different lengths. Remington uses a similar system. Look at the left hand locking lug on a Remington bolt. It might be plain, have a dot, or a line. These denote different lengths of boltheads.
The Savage system makes the 110 action one of the most versatile for experimenters. Barrel and caliber change are easy. Unfortunately, magazine adaptation is not, outside of families of cartridges with similar lengths.
 
As mentioned, ALL Savage barrels offered as prethreaded and prechambered for the 10/110 series of actions are finished chambered and have no barrel shoulder. Cut to length, polished, ready to fire once installed properly.

Also, the depth and location of the finished chamber ensures that any bolt new or old, with the right bolt face, will work. A very simple and innovative system.

There is no point to either short chambered or long chambered barrel. These are commonly offered for actions that use a barrel shoulder like Mausers and Remingtons.

Jerry
 
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