Savage 340 barrels

Soooooo.....

I have this addiction......

I have several Stevens 325's and Savage 340's and Revelation 225's, and most are chambered in 30-30. What I am looking for, is a means to re-barrel, re-bore, or sleeve some of them, to calibers that suit my fancy. I am thinking of sending two of them to J E S Rifle Reboring, getting them made into 35-30 and 38-55. I would also like to have 1 in 32 special, and 22 hornet, but he doesn't bore smaller than .35 caliber, and I don't have a .224 bore barrel for the hornet.
I do have a complete action and bolt assembly for the hornet, so that one would be just a case of getting a barrel made, but I'm not sure whether I should have one of the 30-30 barrels sleeved, or start with a barrel blank, or start with a take-off barrel from a suitable donor rifle.
Oh, and the barrels on these rifles, even though they use a barrel nut, also use a cone breech, so that makes it even more fun!
So many questions!!
What are some of the ideas out there???

Threading a barrel for it should be straight forward enough and if you're lucky the Sav 110 shank/ threads may be the same. Lots of 110 barrels out there. A shortened, rethreaded& rechambered 22-250 could become a Hornet. The same in 25-06 could become a 25-35 Win. Although you might find an original .22 Hornet barrel from GunPartsCorp/Numrich. Do it and post it up, I love to read of other's projects!

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I was hoping that would be the case, but the 110 series small shank is 1.055" at the shank threads, and as best I can tell, the 340 series is .855 - .860 at the shank threads. The other issue is that the 340 series rifles use a cone breach vs. the flat breach face of the 110 series. I really don't want to change the extraction mechanism on the 340 to work with a flat breach face.
I constantly check gunparts for the "unicorn" barrel, but no joy so far!!

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I am thinking of sending two of them to J E S Rifle Reboring, getting them made into 35-30 and 38-55. I would also like to have 1 in 32 special, and 22 hornet, but he doesn't bore smaller than .35 caliber,

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Check with Wayne York at Oregon Gunsmithing. He does really nice work.
Oregunsmithing, LLC
W. Wayne York, Gunmaker
43906 Jerico Lane
Pendleton, OR 97801
Phone: 541-278-4177
Fax: 541-278-4797
Email: Oregunsmithing@earthlink.net

I am guilty of doing crazy things with mausers and carcanos but looking over my 340 I lost interest. I do not like their weak extraction, inability to eject long nose bullets and closed triggers. I do love it in its 30-30 mode!

If you like the Savage 340 series rifles and haven't already seen this website you might be interested to have a look at it ... lots of great information there.

http://www.leeroysramblings.com/Gun%..._bolt_act.html

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Originally Posted by Reverend Al

If you like the Savage 340 series rifles and haven't already seen this website you might be interested to have a look at it ... lots of great information there.

http://www.leeroysramblings.com/Gun%..._bolt_act.html

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That's in my favorites list, and has been for some time. It's a great resource for figuring out what you have and what info is available out there. I actually ended up finding that site by going through the Wisner's web site to get a magazine for one of my model 325s.

My fascination with these rifles started when I was 15 or 16. My Dad wasn't a hunter, but one of his coworkers had invited him to go hunting with them. When I found out about it, I begged and pleaded to be included. My Dad tried to get out of it by pointing out that I didn't have a firearm to use, and his friend responded by telling him that there were all sorts of appropriate rifles available at the local pawn shop. Dad said if I was willing to pay for it, he would take me down and help me purchase one. You guessed it, it ended up being a Savage model 340, chambered in 30-30, with the Dockendorf thumb wheel rear sight (paid $65.00). Shot my first deer with it, but years later, after starting a family, pawned it to pay bills and wasn't able to retrieve it.
Today, I have accumulated several, but I'm trying to put together a collection that covers not only the original chamberings, but those that are interesting and appropriate - like the 35-30 and 38-55.

Anyway, just a little background.

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Originally Posted by Skipper

Check with Wayne York at Oregon Gunsmithing. He does really nice work.
Oregunsmithing, LLC
W. Wayne York, Gunmaker
43906 Jerico Lane
Pendleton, OR 97801
Phone: 541-278-4177
Fax: 541-278-4797
Email: Oregunsmithing@earthlink.net

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I talked with Wayne this afternoon - great guy to talk to!
I've not made up my mind if I'm going to send a couple to him, but I am thinking on it.
Still open to other ideas!

You can always consider a mutt like the .25 Remington using .30-30 brass. You wind up with a rimmed .25 Remington.

Then you could use .303 brass with the rim cut down a little to make a rimmed .35 Rem. which has the advantage of standard dies but requires modified brass.