To my knowledge* all Savage ML-II's were smokeless except the Cabelas/Savage which was designated ML-BP. The ML-II's were not marked "smokeless", but the ML-BP model was reportedly marked "black powder only" on the barrel. If there's no BP warning you're safe with smokeless.


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