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Make no mistake, colodog is a much better shot than I am. His weakness is he gets bored with a gun that shoots well and gives no drama. He loves a project!

That was the situation that led to a deal where I acquired his bull barrel Savage Mark II with accutrigger. He ended up with a generic Mark II with standard trigger. It needed some love but in the end it may need more than he can give it.

I'm just hoping for a "Participation Award" for my 1.185" group.
The Rifle I shot is a current model MKII sporter weight barrel, non accutrigger, 6x burris, AO. CCI Standard ammo.
My recommendation is, if you want a current model don't try to save money, GET THE ACCU-TRIGGER!
The cheaper trigger is so heavy from Savage as to be barely usable.
Rifle Basix has a trigger part that helped a bit but it can only do so much and I modified it as well but it's inferior non the less.
I have some work to do...

Gwrench was shooting the heavy barrel accutrigger model with a Mueller 4.5-14 AO mildot scope, CCI Standard ammo.
It'll do for golf balls at 100yds and he handled it very well at 50yds, no surprise.

Thanks Gnoahhh, for running the match and posting the results so far.

It's fun to see the classy older rifles shot so well too.

That is a very neat Savage trainer Joe. That should get a prize for best looking .22

Thanks Jeff, I went to an auction to see a Spiegel and brought them both home, Joe.

I was starting to wonder if I would make the deadline. My daughter and her husband had a baby girl on 8/29. Joan and I went down to the twin cities for a couple weeks. Then the day before we were ready to leave my son's wife delivered twins (boy and girl) 6 weeks early. Finally got back last night and was hoping for calm morning ... got it. Here is my post-60 target, Savage-Anschutz 54 sporter.

Keith, next year I'm going to try and match that with my 1919. Nice shootin, Joe.

Keith, are you sure you're measuring them correctly? Unless my eyes deceive me, that group is a lot smaller than .440". It appears that the calipers are positioned from the outside-to-center of the farthest holes, when it should be outside-to-inside of the farthest holes (which translates to center-to-center). It looks like a .440 group but the calipers are speaking to me differently.

Any way you cut it, that's some mighty fine shooting! What ammo did you use?

Gary, ammo was Remington Eley Match. The .440 is outside to outside, in the pic below the best target I wrote: .440 - .220 = .220 group. That right hole edge is hard to tell, it's sort of flat. I put the caliper back on, middle-to-middle and got 0.244. So it's somewhere between .220 and .244.

This was the first time I fired high quality .22 ammo through the rifle. With CCI SV, the best I've done ins .350-.400; clearly the quality ammo makes a difference.

Glad I didn't enter the post-`60.

Gulp, me too. (Although I have generated a bunch of similar bughole groups with my pre-war M52.)

Ok, I see the equal sign in your notation now. I'll enter your score as .220".

Ammo does make a difference, indeed. Only once in my life did I find cheap ammo to perform with the best. It was with Federal Champions back in the 80's. I bought a couple boxes one day, found them to shoot equally well as Eley Tenex in my M1922 M2 Springfield, went back the next day and bought every box of that same lot # they had.

An old smallbore competitor told me once that he took a micrometer with him when he bought .22 ammo. If he found some, from any maker, that mic'ed .225 bullet diameter, he would buy every one they had.

Wow! Good shooting Keith, that will be hard to beat.

Way to go Kieth, .220" !

Real nice shooting!

Here's my attempt to be in the same league as Kieth... sorry Kieth, I'm in a different league, different park, and different game, the possum is all yours Brother! My best group is 3X BIGGER .6325" c-c!

the equipment: Savage-Anschutz 54 sporter, weaver 15x, Lapua Center-X

Jeff, when I shot I had absolutely perfect conditions, no wind and cloudy. I first fired 10 rounds out of that box of Remington Eley Match on a plain paper target, just to season the bore a bit from cleaning. I could tell after 5 shots that the ammo was going to shoot better than any .22 ammo I'd ever shot before. All-in-all, the stars just lined up for me the morning I shot. I doubt I could repeat that group if I fired 100 more times.

I've never tried possum

Here's a pic of the rifle. It has an older Leupold Vari-x II 3x9 AO on it. I sure wish the fellow I bought it from had not put on the recoil pad.

That's a beautiful rifle!

Yup, what he said!

This is tough! Not only finding the time, but holding still gets harder and harder. Savage 4C, the one I grew up shooting, with factory open sights.



I count #1: 37, #2: 21, #3: 36, #4: 25, #5: 27. Is that right?
I may not have time for the any sight bench rest shoot.