Building off of a savage action

Load development to shoot this. Take peterson brass out of the box 42.0 grn H100V from 123gn data on Hodgdon site Seat it without adjusting the seater seat up for 147Hornady use a 120smk and a 210m primer. Then shoot it at 326ydsin 0-5 degree weather with a 3-8mph wind at 11 o'clock at a .93 cosine angle in a savage 10. Also make sure you grease the bolt up so 1 in 4 rounds need to be reshot due to gooed up firing pin not hitting hard enough to light the fire.
The last part isn't recommended but I had forgot to clean it before leaving the house. I know better
 

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Savage bashing is sorta like the "Trump Derangement Syndrome"...everybody got to jump on the "bad" whether it is true or not. But if you want to build on a Savage you are not alone.

Field & Stream David E. Petzal summed up the appeal of the Savage 110 in a recent article, calling the model 110 the "per-eminent rifle, both in pure factory form and as the basis for custom guns." He added, "I can't think of anything equivalent in the shooting sports. If you walk down the firing line of F-Class competitions, the overwhelming majority of what you see will be out-of-the-box Savages or modified Savages, or true custom rifles built on the Savage action."

Team Savage also did pretty good a few years ago.
http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2009/08/savage-f-tr-team-world-beaters-on-a-budget/
 
"If you walk down the firing line of F-Class competitions, the overwhelming majority of what you see will be out-of-the-box Savages or modified Savages, or true custom rifles built on the Savage action"

100% pure lie
 
"If you walk down the firing line of F-Class competitions, the overwhelming majority of what you see will be out-of-the-box Savages or modified Savages, or true custom rifles built on the Savage action"
I wonder how much Savage paid him to write that lie?

Yeah, I'd have to call BS on that one too.

At many of the F-class matches I go to (and I get around more than most) there are either rifles built off of custom actions i.e. Borden, BAT, Kelbly, Defiance, Barnard, etc. or rifles built using Savage actions, whether out of the box, modified or complete builds like the picture I posted earlier. A few Remingtons, usually reworked to some degree. Almost no Browning, CZ, Howa, Winchester, etc. Occasionally you might see a Ruger RPR... usually not more than once, as the gun just isn't set up for F-class.

If you change the venue to PRS, you see a lot more variety... particularly more RPR, more Tikka, and more re-worked Rem 700s (apparently nobody likes those things in stock form - just kidding ;) )

But yeah, that kind of statement from a publisher makes me wonder how much he actually gets around to matches.
 
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Yeah, I'd have to call BS on that one too.

At many of the F-class matches I go to (and I get around more than most) there are either rifles built off of custom actions i.e. Borden, BAT, Kelbly, Defiance, Bernard, etc. or rifles built using Savage actions, whether out of the box, modified or complete builds. A few Remingtons, usually reworked to some degree. Almost no Browning, CZ, Howa, Winchester, etc. Occasionally you might see a Ruger RPR... usually not more than once, as the gun just isn't set up for F-class.

If you change the venue to PRS, you see a lot more variety... particularly more RPR, more Tikka, and more re-worked Rem 700s (apparently nobody likes those things in stock form - just kidding ;) )

But yeah, that kind of statement from a publisher makes me wonder how much he actually gets around to matches.

Sorry I have to ask, are you one of the Savage Team members (http://bulletin.accurateshooter.com/2009/08/savage-f-tr-team-world-beaters-on-a-budget/)?
 
I had a gun magazine writer friend, who has left the range, who would lie to do the gun people a favor. I wrote an article once and the editor added bullets I never tried. For those reason I put most gun writers in the same category as "journalists".
 
Just because you hate the looks of a Savage action and wouldn't do it. Doesn't mean that people who like Savage actions shouldn't do it.
You know I have a Wilson barrel setting in my safe, that is chambered in 6mm/250 improved. I've had it on two 112's (the very early C/M action) and a 12BVSS-s action. All three rifles shot .25" five shot groups. One of the 112 actions has been in a lathe for a minor (as in very minor) touch up. The other two are as delivered. The same three rifles with the turd barrel shot anywhere from high ones to a very low threes with a 22-250 barrel. By the way, three different barrels! One of the barrels has so many bullets thru it that I set it back and recrowned it.

My next adventure will be a new 6mm improved (30 degree shoulder) off one of these actions. Have not decided on what barrel brand, but expect to see sub .40" groups and maybe mid two's. I will change the trigger group on one of the 112's to a Rifle Basix, but other than a bedding touch up; nothing else. I'm cheap!
gary
 
Here is off my "Turd" savage 28 Nosler during barrel break in last month. No load development has been done yet, just doing velocity testing. My 243 AI shoots .178 groups but I cant seem to find the picture. Its also a "Turd".
 

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