Savage 219 single shot barrel

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I recently bought an old Savage 219 that came with a shotgun barrel, but no rifle barrel. I have an old remington 722 barrel in 222 caliber that I'm considering trying to fit to the old Savage.
Anyone have any experience with this?
 
You see 219 barrels pretty often on ebay, try Numrich arms for them also get a 22H barrel and K it or rechamber to 218 Bee or Mashburn Bee. Unless you can do the work yourself and there is alot to do even if your going to whack off the shotgun barrel and use the breech end for a mono-block. You could probably buy another 219 for the time and cost your going to put into it. I don't think the 219 came in anything stouter than the 30-30 and it runs at nearly half the pressure of a 222 Rem and getting a 219 extractor to work with a rimless case is another hassle. you can make 222 Rimmed from 5.6x50R Mag brass and 357 Maximum or import 222 Rem Rimmed Bertram brass
 
Numrich is out of stock for these barrels and haven't seen anything on ebay for quite a while. I think your right about the amount of work and expense involved. I was thinking about the mono-block idea as well. I did not realize how much higher the pressure was vs a 30-30. That pretty much makes it a deal-breaker right there. I think I'll scrap that idea keep looking for a proper barrel. I just posted in the classified, so maybe something will turn up.

Thanks for the rational analysis.
 
Not being familiar with the 219 it got my curiosity up so I did some quick search's. I didn't find a barrel of any kind available. Granted, my search was limited and I don't know all the right places to look either. You might try posting on 24 hour Campfire as well. Lots of members over there.
 
Yeah, that'd cost you prob the price of 2 or more 219's to do? My father collects them. There's a 220 that is basically the same gun...and a stevens model, and variations on the models......may swap barrels? You wanna be careful on bbl swaps on them due to machining tolerances and equipment not necessarily being what modern day stuff is. There is also a diff between shotgun and rifle firing pins. There are guys that have "made" bbls by doing this and that, but its not factory-approved work, i'm sure. A net search will bring all kindsa ideas. The rifles bbls came factory in 30-30, 22 hornet, 25-20 & 32-20 as best i can tell. Shottys in 12, 16, 20 and 410.
 
Thanks guys for the replies.

Mike B, I'm on the lookout for a rifle barrel, any caliber any condition.

Do you think your dad would be willing to chat with me about these guns? There's a lot I don't know about them.
I could send you my phone number if that works for him.
 
I bought a Savage 219 with .22 Hornet barrel this spring. I'm looking for a 30-30 barrel for it. I had one several years ago. It was chambered for 219 Zipper. I never could get it to group decently so I sold this one. The reason I bought this one was because it was engraved and looked cool. Got it on Proxibid for $340.00, I was the only one who bid on it. I milled a scope base to fit the barrel radius and drill and tapped the barrel for the scope base. I'm in the process for making new stocks for it.

Here are some pictures.

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Nice looking gun..

I sold mine about 15 yrs ago. Trigger was way too heavy esp since I was shooting 22LR BR w/ couple ounce triggers.
 
This is a follow up. I just purchased a 30/30 barrel, 26". I think I might have it shortened a bit. Also I worked the trigger down to 3 3/4 pounds.
 
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