Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Rimfires Went with a Savage 22.

I was looking at a few different heavy barrel bolt action 22lr. Ended up going with the Savage Mark II BV. My wife is getting it for me for Christmas, had my FFL friend order it.

Couldn't find anything I was looking for locally. There were plenty of heavy barrel 17hmr and 22 wmr's, no 22lr's though. At least I was able to find a similar rifle to hold/fondle so I knew what to order.

Scope and rings next.

NYH1.

You are likely to be impressed! Savage rimfires kick butt.

Excellent

Are you going to restock it?

Savage builds good stuff...........

I bought one of these a few yrs back..........

16" threaded........big bolt........accurate sucker...........

this must be a newer series..but close....

this is it.............

fluted 16" no less...............

I have one, pre-Accutrigger. I like it a lot. I put a Rifle Basix trigger in it, glad that I did. I have a Bushnell 3200 5-15x40 on it. Wonderful gun, great balance for off-hand shooting. My stock is more a grey color than a wood color; I believe it is laminated. How a gun with only one action screw shoots so well I've never been able to figure out.

Hopefully not. It has the Boyd's laminated stock on it.

NYH1.

No, this one.


NYH1.

i purchased one of these about 5 or 6 yrs ago. the barrel was noticeably off-center in the laminated stock. the first shot out of a cold barrel is usually a little wild, but then it immediately settles in and starts shooting groups. i have mine zeroed at 50 yds and cant tell you how many critter headshots it has accounted for using CCI standard velocity ammo. every brick or so of ammo it requires a chamber swab bc the cases begin sticking.

I misread your post, I thought that you'd posted that it was an FV, not a BV.

I have 17HM2s, 17HMRs, and 22MAGs in the BVSS format, good rifles all.

The synthetic stocks on the Savage rimfires are very narrow and don't fit me as well as those on the comparable Marlin rifles. I do wish that Marlin would make a shorter magazine for their 17HM2 AND 22LR rifles, as the 7-shot magazine extends a couple of inches below the bottom of the stock and get in the way. Marlin corrected this issue on the 17HMR and 22MAG rifles, now they include a 4-shot and a 7-shot magazine with each rifle.

Thanks guys. Should be here tomorrow. If we get a break from the snow I might be able to pick it up. Guess we'll have to see what the great lake effect snow machine has in store for tonight/tomorrow!

NYH1.

Just put on your overcoat and use a bright colored target

I have the same rifle without the heavy barrel. Most accurate rimfire I’ve owned. You will be pleased.

Fine rifles, but the magazines usually leave a LOT to be desired. Can't argue with the accuracy, but damn those magazines suck.

Thanks guys. Picked it up the other day. Looks great.

NYH1.

I finally shot my new Savage today. Shoots pretty good. I put a Leupold 2-7x28mm rimfire scope on it (gonna put a Leupold VX-2 4-12x40mm Adj. Opt. on it eventually.

I shot CCI Stingers (32 gr. 1640 fps), CCI Mini-Mags (40 gr. 1235 fps) and Winchester Super X HP's (40 gr. 1280 fps).

Zeroed it at 50 yds. Group sizes were all about the same for all three loads.

At 50 yds.
.75" to 1". A little smaller at 25 yds. with elevation being about the same as 50 yds.

At 100 yds.
I only shot the Stingers and Super X's, groups were 1" to 1.25" (really good since my eye's aren't the best). The Stringers were about 1 to 1.5" low. The Super X's were 4 to 5 inches low.

The magazine sucks gator tain't though!

NYH1.

I just looked at my target while I was in my truck. At 100 yds. the Stingers were about an inch low and the Super X's were about three inches low. Don't know why I thought they were lower.

NYH1.

I have a couple of older, pre-A/T, Savage Mark II rifles in 17HM2, 2xBVSS and 1xFV in a Boyds Rimfire Hunter stock. They are good shooters, but I prefer the ergs of the comparable Marlins 800/900 series rifles and the KY built XT series. I will state for the record that the best shooting new, straight out of the box, rimfire rifles that I've yet to own is an older, pre-A/T, Savage 93R17BVSS.l I'd guess that at least a dozen guys have shot their first sub-MOA groups with that rifle and their success prompted them to buy similar rifles.

I have a Marlin XT-22VR, an impulse buy at Cabela's that was too inexpensive to pass on. While is isn't a match grade shooter, it does quite well with an old Weaver T-15 installed and its preferred type of Eley, RWS, or SK ammo.

EDIT: What is gator 'taint?