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Newtosavage
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After waiting 14 weeks, I received my custom 7x57 barrel for my vintage (1960) Savage 110. It is replacing the shot-out 30-06 factory barrel. These old Savage barrels had the rear sight swell, and the walnut stocks were inletted (perfectly) to match.
When I asked the manufacturer if they could match the contour of that 61 year old barrel, they said no problem, just send in the original barrel. So I did. And 14 weeks later, I got back a custom barrel that was literally perfect in every way except one.
The bluing is spot-on. The contour is dead on and the lettering even times exactly right when the barrel is correctly headspaced (which is very rare). HOWEVER, the barrel swell is off by about 1/8". I have no idea how they can miss that detail by so much. When you line up the barrels, it's very noticeable. VERY noticeable. How do you send that barrel to bluing, I wonder???
I could easily remedy this situation by inletting around that barrel swell on the new barrel. It would take me literally 5 minutes. BUT, every time I look at that stock, I'll see their mistake. And I'm getting to an age where I feel like I should get what I want when I spend my money. That said, I don't really want to wait another 14 weeks either.
So what would you do? Send it back (if they will take it back), pay return shipping for both barrels, waste an otherwise perfectly good custom barrel and wait 14 weeks for it's replacement to show up?
Or would you just inlet the 60 year old stock 1/8" live with the noticeable gap, head to the range and learn to ignore it? I mean, at the end of the day these really are 1st world problems, but at the same time, I did give them $400 of my money too.
I'm really on the fence here and want to hear your thoughts. On a scale of 1 to 5, how upset should I be here?
When I asked the manufacturer if they could match the contour of that 61 year old barrel, they said no problem, just send in the original barrel. So I did. And 14 weeks later, I got back a custom barrel that was literally perfect in every way except one.
The bluing is spot-on. The contour is dead on and the lettering even times exactly right when the barrel is correctly headspaced (which is very rare). HOWEVER, the barrel swell is off by about 1/8". I have no idea how they can miss that detail by so much. When you line up the barrels, it's very noticeable. VERY noticeable. How do you send that barrel to bluing, I wonder???
I could easily remedy this situation by inletting around that barrel swell on the new barrel. It would take me literally 5 minutes. BUT, every time I look at that stock, I'll see their mistake. And I'm getting to an age where I feel like I should get what I want when I spend my money. That said, I don't really want to wait another 14 weeks either.
So what would you do? Send it back (if they will take it back), pay return shipping for both barrels, waste an otherwise perfectly good custom barrel and wait 14 weeks for it's replacement to show up?
Or would you just inlet the 60 year old stock 1/8" live with the noticeable gap, head to the range and learn to ignore it? I mean, at the end of the day these really are 1st world problems, but at the same time, I did give them $400 of my money too.
I'm really on the fence here and want to hear your thoughts. On a scale of 1 to 5, how upset should I be here?
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