I have a Savage 111 FXP3 rifle in 30-06 and was wondering if it can be converted to a 270 Win or 25-06 Rem? If so, what all needs to be done to accomplish this? TIA
barrel, headspace gauges, barrel nut wrench, and about 1hrs time. If your realy unlucky, your barrel nut will be stuck on real good. I ended up cutting mine off with a cut off wheel and dreme.
I've gotten really good at breaking the most stubborn bbl nuts loose as easy as can be.
You put a large crescent wrench on the recoil lug and your bbl nut wrench on the nut.
You then place this on the floor with the wrenches arranged in such a way that when you stand on the middle between the two wrenched all of your weight is going into loosening the bbl nut. At most a couple hops and that puppy submits
I had to use brown sugar between my barrel and the blocks on both rifles I've disassembled to provide a little extra "grip"; many folks recommend baseball pitcher's resin but I didn't have any available.
My barrel still spun a bit in the blocks with the sugar, but 3-4 good whacks on the nut wrench with a 1lb dead-blow hammer and both nuts broke free.
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