Savage with No 32 Setup

[Alan de Enfield]

I got the stock off and it's original! Got a real Savage setup by H&H....

You took the butt off without removing the forend.

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[Surpmil]

You took the butt off without removing the forend.

Wasn't that required only on the No.1 Rifle?

[Alan de Enfield]

Wasn't that required only on the No.1 Rifle?

Yes it was, but as the bolt is the same thread / size for the No1 and the No4, and folks have a habit of stripping down their rifles and replacing parts, I always work on the 'worse case' scenario that the bolt may have been replaced by a No1 bolt.

There was an instruction given to Armourers to cut off the square end of the No1 bolts, but as usual (from the numbers of non cut bolts) it seems the message didn't get received by all stations.

I always suggest, that irrespective of rifle No, it is 'safer' to disassemble the rifle forend first.

[Surpmil]

Yes it was, but as the bolt is the same thread / size for the No1 and the No4, and folks have a habit of stripping down their rifles and replacing parts, I always work on the 'worse case' scenario that the bolt may have been replaced by a No1 bolt.

There was an instruction given to Armourers to cut off the square end of the No1 bolts, but as usual (from the numbers of non cut bolts) it seems the message didn't get received by all stations.

I always suggest, that irrespective of rifle No, it is 'safer' to disassemble the rifle forend first.

Well, I expect that if a No.1 buttstock bolt was used on a No4 the nose would press into the cross-strap of the forend enough to deform it and certainly enough to push the forend against the draws making it well nigh impossible to get off.

So removing the butt first would seem prudent to me. There is no notch in the cross-strap of the No.4 forend after all.

Occasionally one sees No.4 cross-straps were the bolt has managed to at least mark the cross-strap, though I'm guessing the threads were at least designed to be short enough to prevent that when using the bolt made for the No.4?