[NCSurfer]

I recently inherited am old Savage 430 O/U 16ga and an old Rem 1100 shotgun and want to refinish the both the wood and the metal on both. The Rem 1100 is simple, but the Savage 430 is another story. They were only manufactured between 1938 and 1942 so parts are nonexistent. The problem I'm having is trying to remove the butt stock, sometime in the last 80ish yrs someone used the wrong type/size screw driver on one of the screws (Tang screw for anyone with a parts diagram) and messed up the slot. So now I can't get a screw driver to bite so I can back the screw out. Anyone have a tip or trick I can try to get the screw out? Thanks

 

[Sniper03]

NCSurfer,

First of all, welcome to the Forum! Glad to hear from you and hope you stick around!
My suggestion is if you have any tool shops close. Have your Receiver and Stock with you and stop by and see what they say. They may have the ability to drill into the screw? and take an easy out to remove the screw or maybe cut enough of a slot in the screw head to get a hold of the screw. But you might want to us penetrating oil on the screw well in advance if they can help you? Just a suggestion but they could advise if there was anyway of removing the screw!

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[Notrighty]

If you can figure a way to remove the head of the screw, the stock will slide right off. I know its in a hard place to get at.

 

[NCSurfer]

If you can figure a way to remove the head of the screw, the stock will slide right off. I know its in a hard place to get at.

I'm hoping that's the case. Numrich has the tang screws in stock, so if I have to I'll use a small broken screw extractor and get the old one out and replace. Looking at the schematic on Numrich, removing the stock bolt, tang screw and trigger guard screw should free up the stock. The wood is beautiful and once refinished and metal re-blued the gun will be really nice.