Savage Ventliner

[Duhawki]

Several people have said that the hole in the Savage vent liner is smaller than SMI. I just checked my SMI and found it to be a perfect fit for a #68 number bit. Seems pretty small to me. How does that compare to a Savage?

 

[Tar-12]

Several people have said that the hole in the Savage vent liner is smaller than SMI. I just checked my SMI and found it to be a perfect fit for a #68 number bit. Seems pretty small to me. How does that compare to a Savage?

.031-.033

 

[Duhawki]

That would make the Savage vent liner a couple of thousandths LARGER than the SMI vent on my barrel. Interesting.

 

[jims]

My SMI ventliers run about .060. The one piece SMI breechplug however is closer to .031. This is from memory, when I have a chance I will measure both exactly.

 

[Duhawki]

.031 inch is a standard size for nipple picks. That size wire will not go through my SMI vent, but .029 will. When I picked up my barrel from Ron and Dan, they told me that I could use loads from their website and that Savage loads would be OK too. Now I wonder if SMI has intentionally reduced vent size to roughly match Savage in recent years.