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Did US made Savage guns actually ship with 6 groove barrels? ie issued with them?
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07-02-2013 05:48 PM
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ssj: The answer to your first question is "No". Longbranch put out some 6 groove barrels in the fifties made on equipment used for bren barrels (opposite to normal twist). I have a '43 that was rebarreled thusly and it's a great shooter with a Parker-Hale vernier peep sight. As to savage, I seem to vaguely recall reading that some 6 groove barrels were used early on.
Ridolpho
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I have a 4C Savage that features a 6 groove barrel...
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I recently saw a 1950 Long Branch with a 6 groove barrel. Don't know if it came from the factory with it, but is was an original military barrel.
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I believe the Savage 6groove barrels are left hand.
I know the postwar Canadian barrels are right hand twist.
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From my understanding and looking at real examples, early Savage No4 Mk1 (not *) rifles had 6-groove barrels until about halfway through 5C series serial numbers in 1942. They were right hand twist 1 in 10". Long Branch made 6-groove barrels on the Bren barrel blanks in the 50s (CNo.4Mk1*) with 1 in 10" left hand twist.
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I have heard, though I've never tried to confirm its accuracy, that, as curator says, the early Savage Mk1 rifles had 6 groove barrels because Savage were using/adapting barrel making tooling left over from defunct French contracts for production of the Mas 36. This may or may not be true, but I'd be interested to know if anyone else has heard this story & can clarify???
ATB
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I've heard and read the story Rog although I thought it was barrel machinery for the Berthier. I could be wrong. The twist rate is 1 in 9 or 9.5. I can't remember which. I think this is mentioned in one of Ian Skennerton's books if memory serves. Maybe Paul can weigh in.
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