I was talking to Savage on the phone on Friday and they told me that in 2010 (they did not say WHEN in 2010) they changed the spacing on the actions used on the LRPV rifles to be exactly the same as the spacing on the Palma rifles. So if I understood the lady correctly, essentially now the actions and mounting screw spacing on ALL the single shot actions using the 3 screw system are the same.
So now you can apparently take a Savage LRPV rifle and stick it into a Savage Palma stock, or a Benchrest stock, or an F-Class stock, or visa versa.
That much I’m pretty sure I understood correctly.
What I’m not quite so sure about is my understanding of the actions themselves. I “think” she said that the single shot actions used in the Varmint rifles (LRPV) and the actions used in the Target rifles (Palma, Benchrest, F-Class, etc) had always been the same actions – BUT – they used different spacing on the three mounting screws. This recent change simply changed the spacing on the 3 screws used on the LRPV actions so they were the same as the Palma actions. In other words, they just use the Palma action now for all the single shot Target rifles and the single shot Varmint rifles.
I “think” that’s what she meant.
Does anybody know what the measurements of the Palma action are – and what the measurements of the LRPV action are? If I am right the action should be identical, but the old spacing of the three screws will be different.
The action they used to use in the LRPV was called the “short” action, and the action they used in the Palma was the “Palma” action.
Apparently now it’s all called the “Palma” action.
What I’m not sure of is whether the “Palma” action was simply the “short” action with different screw spacing – or if there were other differences as well.
Anyway, apparently the LRPV now uses the Palma action.
I hope that’s good – because I just ordered two of them. One in .223 and one in 6mmBR Norma. Both are left port right bolt.
Any thoughts and comments appreciated.
So now you can apparently take a Savage LRPV rifle and stick it into a Savage Palma stock, or a Benchrest stock, or an F-Class stock, or visa versa.
That much I’m pretty sure I understood correctly.
What I’m not quite so sure about is my understanding of the actions themselves. I “think” she said that the single shot actions used in the Varmint rifles (LRPV) and the actions used in the Target rifles (Palma, Benchrest, F-Class, etc) had always been the same actions – BUT – they used different spacing on the three mounting screws. This recent change simply changed the spacing on the 3 screws used on the LRPV actions so they were the same as the Palma actions. In other words, they just use the Palma action now for all the single shot Target rifles and the single shot Varmint rifles.
I “think” that’s what she meant.
Does anybody know what the measurements of the Palma action are – and what the measurements of the LRPV action are? If I am right the action should be identical, but the old spacing of the three screws will be different.
The action they used to use in the LRPV was called the “short” action, and the action they used in the Palma was the “Palma” action.
Apparently now it’s all called the “Palma” action.
What I’m not sure of is whether the “Palma” action was simply the “short” action with different screw spacing – or if there were other differences as well.
Anyway, apparently the LRPV now uses the Palma action.
I hope that’s good – because I just ordered two of them. One in .223 and one in 6mmBR Norma. Both are left port right bolt.
Any thoughts and comments appreciated.
