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Sorry to hear about that, that can be so frustrating. What rifle is it? I have a Stevens 200 in 22-250 and an axis in 223, they both shoot under half inch with minimal load development. I few of my friends have gotten axis line guns in 243 and their results have been the same as far as outstanding accuracy. Your 1.5 MOA does not sound normal to me, have you tried Varget powder by any chance? Scope is locked down good? Good rest while shooting? Sorry for your frustration, it sucks I know. I put a Boyds stock on mine but it shot the same with the BB gun plastic stock, Savages are shooters from my experience. https://imgur.com/Ds5rKme
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Thanks BSA I been thinking about a Creedmoor, my 260 just don't like any of the 120-130 gr range bullets so I think I'll shoot the barrel out of it with 100's and rebarrel to Creed. There is getting to be a whole lot of good shooting lower priced models chambered for the Creed so I been wondering about going that way. MB
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I own mostly Savage rifles. I just picked up a 7-08 but before I shoot it, I need a base, rings, and a scope.
My purchase before that was a model 110 (new to me) from the 80's chambered in 270 win. Factory (Winchester and Hornady) was giving me 3 inch groups. My reloads (130gr NBT and Hornady SST's) gave me 1" groups if I did my part. The load data I used came from the Hornady reloading manual. Thinking I had finally found a dud, I took it to a smith to have the barrel checked out. He said it looked like it could have been a safe queen since the 80's. Still stumped by the groups, I referred to the Nosler reloading manual. The OAL was different (apologies I don't have those numbers with me right now) and when I adjusted it I started getting half MOA groups.
I also purchased a box of factory Fusion 130gr ammo as a back up for a hunt (ran out of time to reload). That factory box shot as good as my reloads.
I would say try a box of Fusion just to see if your groups improve.
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I have one, a 16 in 250 Savage and the thing is stupid accurate no matter what I run thru it. i have one of those. such a mild, easy shooting cartridge. if only more people knew ...
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Probably a lemon. Did you call Savage?
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Probably a lemon. Did you call Savage?
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How about the quality though. Many sa they are accurate but what about quality? My guns can shoot 2" @ 100yds and plenty good for Wisconsin. I never shot anything past 100 yds. Does the case jamb like mine does in my Savage 12FV? I hate the fact that I can't feed a bullt from the magazine. It is nothing but a single shot anyway cause with the bull barrel it never leaves the bench anyway. As for accurate , it's a .223. I dont think it is all that accurate . I can put 5 inside. .8" - 1" @ 100 but that is not all that accurate . It could be me a little but I have done than with older Remington 700 so may times with plain Jane bullets , so i dont think it is me.
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How about the quality though. Many sa they are accurate but what about quality? My guns can shoot 2" @ 100yds and plenty good for Wisconsin. I never shot anything past 100 yds. Does the case jamb like mine does in my Savage 12FV? I hate the fact that I can't feed a bullt from the magazine. It is nothing but a single shot anyway cause with the bull barrel it never leaves the bench anyway. As for accurate , it's a .223. I dont think it is all that accurate . I can put 5 inside. .8" - 1" @ 100 but that is not all that accurate . It could be me a little but I have done than with older Remington 700 so may times with plain Jane bullets , so i dont think it is me. All of mine must be excellent then. No feeding or extraction issues. You may want to send yours in, and have them look at it. With your accuracy and feeding issues, it may be related, like the mag box isnt in the stock right or bound up. All of my savage rifles also shoot into .8 moa, very consistently. Its almost too easy. Thats also 10 shot groups. I havent even bothered to work up a load yet in my 223 predator, as it shoots my AR load into .8 moa religiously. The other 2 (6.5 creedmoor and 22-250) have been far easier to shoot sub moa 10 shot groups, than my new Tikka 6.5 creedmoor, or any other rifle ive had, to be honest. I really dont mind that they are "ugly" when they shoot this well.
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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I have a Savage 116 .30-06 that will shoot anything I feed it, some ammo groups under 3/4" on a good day. I bought that gun in 1996, and it's a great rifle. I bought a Savage 11 Trophy Hunter XP last March in .260, and that thing is picky on what I feed it. So far I've only gotten about a 2" three shot group at 100 yards. I have since changed scopes and mounts. I put Talley lightweights and a Leupold VX3i 3.5-10 on it, but have yet to shoot it since then. I have noticed that the action on the 11 is not near as smooth as the 116. I think if I start reloading for it, it will be a good tight shooting rifle.
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Probably a lemon. Did you call Savage? +1
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How about the quality though. Many sa they are accurate but what about quality? My guns can shoot 2" @ 100yds and plenty good for Wisconsin. I never shot anything past 100 yds. Does the case jamb like mine does in my Savage 12FV? I hate the fact that I can't feed a bullt from the magazine. It is nothing but a single shot anyway cause with the bull barrel it never leaves the bench anyway. As for accurate , it's a .223. I dont think it is all that accurate . I can put 5 inside. .8" - 1" @ 100 but that is not all that accurate . It could be me a little but I have done than with older Remington 700 so may times with plain Jane bullets , so i dont think it is me. All of mine must be excellent then. No feeding or extraction issues. You may want to send yours in, and have them look at it. With your accuracy and feeding issues, it may be related, like the mag box isnt in the stock right or bound up. All of my savage rifles also shoot into .8 moa, very consistently. Its almost too easy. Thats also 10 shot groups. I havent even bothered to work up a load yet in my 223 predator, as it shoots my AR load into .8 moa religiously. The other 2 (6.5 creedmoor and 22-250) have been far easier to shoot sub moa 10 shot groups, than my new Tikka 6.5 creedmoor, or any other rifle ive had, to be honest. I really dont mind that they are "ugly" when they shoot this well. 10 shots into .8 is incredible. Ive seen rifles with custom cut rifled barrels that wouldn't do that. Just out of curiosity do your savages tend to copper foul badly? The ones I've looked at with my bore scope pretty much all had very rough bores and id be curious if that would cause excessive fouling. IMHO a rough bore has little to no correlation to accuracy fwiw The thing I really really like about the Savage guns is how easy it is to screw on a new tube. Im hoping that the REMAGE barrels that are being made by a few makers start to catch on with more companies. Ive already got a couple of worked over 700s and that would make my life soooo much easier.
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How about the quality though. Many sa they are accurate but what about quality? My guns can shoot 2" @ 100yds and plenty good for Wisconsin. I never shot anything past 100 yds. Does the case jamb like mine does in my Savage 12FV? I hate the fact that I can't feed a bullt from the magazine. It is nothing but a single shot anyway cause with the bull barrel it never leaves the bench anyway. As for accurate , it's a .223. I dont think it is all that accurate . I can put 5 inside. .8" - 1" @ 100 but that is not all that accurate . It could be me a little but I have done than with older Remington 700 so may times with plain Jane bullets , so i dont think it is me. All of mine must be excellent then. No feeding or extraction issues. You may want to send yours in, and have them look at it. With your accuracy and feeding issues, it may be related, like the mag box isnt in the stock right or bound up. All of my savage rifles also shoot into .8 moa, very consistently. Its almost too easy. Thats also 10 shot groups. I havent even bothered to work up a load yet in my 223 predator, as it shoots my AR load into .8 moa religiously. The other 2 (6.5 creedmoor and 22-250) have been far easier to shoot sub moa 10 shot groups, than my new Tikka 6.5 creedmoor, or any other rifle ive had, to be honest. I really dont mind that they are "ugly" when they shoot this well. 10 shots into .8 is incredible. Ive seen rifles with custom cut rifled barrels that wouldn't do that. Just out of curiosity do your savages tend to copper foul badly? The ones I've looked at with my bore scope pretty much all had very rough bores and id be curious if that would cause excessive fouling. IMHO a rough bore has little to no correlation to accuracy fwiw The thing I really really like about the Savage guns is how easy it is to screw on a new tube. Im hoping that the REMAGE barrels that are being made by a few makers start to catch on with more companies. Ive already got a couple of worked over 700s and that would make my life soooo much easier. Thanks Quak. Funny thing about my 12fv, is it was fouled terribly, when I bought it. It was a new in the box rifle too, but it looked like it had atleast 200 rounds through it. It took a lot to get the fouling out the first time I cleaned it. I used sweets 7.62 a couple times and then finished with shooters choice. I have almost 1000 rounds downrange with that rifle now, after shooting it since around october. It cleans up real nice now, with minimal fouling. However, the beauty about these savage barrels is they keep shooting great even after many rounds downrange between cleanings. They don't have to be super clean to shoot good. They actually shoot better after they are fouled pretty good, which is strange for me, because my winchester model 70's are just the opposite. They shoot excellent when clean, but accuracy degrades after it's really fouled.. I can show you pics all day long of how well my savage rifles shoot, but how about I show you my most recent target. I shot this yesterday, after mounting my new SWFA SS 16x on it. The first 10 shot group I shot of the day is on the left. Now, when I shot that target it wasn't snowing. Then when I shot the orange dot on the right, it was snowing hard. I could barely make out a glimpse of the orange dot at times and didn't take my time. The first group, is what i was after, to confirm the new scope is good and the rifle not damaged after dropping it a couple weekends ago (long story): Generally the rifle shoots like this: Here's one of the more recent targets I submitted here in the "moa all day long challenge": My model 10 predator is pretty bad azzed too and shoots lights out:
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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And my Stevens 200 that I put into a Trophy hunter stock, my buddy gave me: I'm running cheap azzed scopes on these too, nothing fancy or high dollar. I paid $100.00 for the Weaver on the stevens and $200 for the burris MSR 223 on the predator. All in all, I'm pretty happy with these salvages... Lately I've been working with a Tikka T3x superlite and that thing is a beautiful rifle because of its weight and function. However, it's only a shade lighter than the Stevens 200 22-250. When both rifles are cased up and I pick them up, I can't tell which rifle is in which case. The weight is that close between the 2. The Tikka has a very nice bore and cleans up better/easier than the Savage rifles, but only by a couple patches. The Tikka also didn't shoot as well as the Savages out of the box, and still doesn't as a matter of fact... More load development will maybe allow it to drop below moa. I hope.. I'm not complaining though.
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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Holy [bleep] that is some great shooting! I certainly would NOT complain about any of those groups! That is funny about your experience with Winchester as mine is exactly the same. Both with USRAC guns and BACO guns. I hope nobody takes offense to this as I know the BACO guns are supposed to be so much better but I have to be honest...I think the barrels they use are absolute junk. Ive owned three of them (all supper grades) and they were the roughest bored, fastest fouling, and hardest to clean guns I've ever owned. I use a borescope pretty religiously and I sold them as a result. My USRAC guns also had very rough bores but they were all made pretty close to the New Haven plant closing and that was somewhat of a known issue.
Beautiful guns all of them and I really liked them. I just could not get the barrels to calm down and stop copper fouling. They literally would look like copper mines after as few as 20 rounds and i tried bullets of several different makes to see if I could find any that didn't foul as badly.
Great to know about your Savage barrels not fouling and cleaning up easy. Id be willing to bet its because they are button riffled and any manufacturing marks left are in the same direction as the bullet traveling down the bore. It would make sense that after they settled in a little they would smooth out nicely. IIRC Remington used to use button rifled barrels but switched to hammer forging sometime in the late 80s or early 90s or so I've been told. Ive had it both way with 700 barrels. Some seemed to never foul and were finished pretty well and some were absolute copper magnets that required a lot of work and/or polishing and were as rough as a corn cob. Ive got 2 newer ones in 270 that have 5R rifling which are supposed to be easier to clean. They are the best finished Remington barrels I've ever owned and they do clean remarkably easy. My guess is that its due to newer tooling as they haven't been making 270 5r barrels for very long. They both shoot very well...averaging 3 shot groups under an inch with their preferred hand loads but they defiantly don't shoot as well as your rifles above.
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@BSA1917Hunter. Very nice groups. Stellar rifles.
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@BSA1917Hunter. Very nice groups. Stellar rifles. Thankyou buddy. I'm enjoying the heck out of them... I also look forward to burning up a barrel, so I can put a good one on and see what they can really do..
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Holy [bleep] that is some great shooting! I certainly would NOT complain about any of those groups! That is funny about your experience with Winchester as mine is exactly the same. Both with USRAC guns and BACO guns. I hope nobody takes offense to this as I know the BACO guns are supposed to be so much better but I have to be honest...I think the barrels they use are absolute junk. Ive owned three of them (all supper grades) and they were the roughest bored, fastest fouling, and hardest to clean guns I've ever owned. I use a borescope pretty religiously and I sold them as a result. My USRAC guns also had very rough bores but they were all made pretty close to the New Haven plant closing and that was somewhat of a known issue.
Beautiful guns all of them and I really liked them. I just could not get the barrels to calm down and stop copper fouling. They literally would look like copper mines after as few as 20 rounds and i tried bullets of several different makes to see if I could find any that didn't foul as badly.
Great to know about your Savage barrels not fouling and cleaning up easy. Id be willing to bet its because they are button riffled and any manufacturing marks left are in the same direction as the bullet traveling down the bore. It would make sense that after they settled in a little they would smooth out nicely. IIRC Remington used to use button rifled barrels but switched to hammer forging sometime in the late 80s or early 90s or so I've been told. Ive had it both way with 700 barrels. Some seemed to never foul and were finished pretty well and some were absolute copper magnets that required a lot of work and/or polishing and were as rough as a corn cob. Ive got 2 newer ones in 270 that have 5R rifling which are supposed to be easier to clean. They are the best finished Remington barrels I've ever owned and they do clean remarkably easy. My guess is that its due to newer tooling as they haven't been making 270 5r barrels for very long. They both shoot very well...averaging 3 shot groups under an inch with their preferred hand loads but they defiantly don't shoot as well as your rifles above.
Thanks Quak. I hear you on all accounts. Good post. I've seen some terrible BACO barrels as well. One of my buddies fought a 300WSM Extreme weather tooth and nail. It was horrible. The best he could do with it was 3" 3 shot groups when it was new. It was also a copper magnet. I told him to send it back to Winchester, but he didn't want to. He knew it was rough and decided to just shoot it until it settled down. Him and 2 other guys shot that poor thing like they were trying to melt the damn barrel. I guess they put around 200 rounds down the tube in one sitting. I was not part of that ordeal, thankfully. He said he could actually watch the groups shrink as they kept shooting it. He says the rifling isn't as "sharp" as it once was, but at least it shoots better now and doesn't copper foul nearly as bad either. I told him, he should have just bought a fire lapping kit instead. I don't condone that type of treatment to ones rifle barrel, but I'm glad it worked for him in the end. That EW shoots moa 3 shot groups now, believe it or not...
I try to stick with the basics, they do so well. Nothing fancy mind you, just plain jane will get it done with style. You want to see an animal drop right now? Shoot him in the ear hole. BSA MAGA
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I'm curious if any of you have noticed savage quality going down? I've never been a savage guy personally, but always heard they were very accurate. So I've been developing loads for my grandsons new 308 shooting 165/168 gr bullets with variety, 4895, 4064 and I cannot get this rifle to shoot. I have adjusted the bedding and the trigger, along with seating depth, etc....and I'm only getting 1.5" groups at best. Did he just get a Lemmon? I have four Savage rifles. A Model 11 Prairie Dog Hunter 22-250 that is half MOA. A heavy barrel 17HMR that goes half MOA from time to time but is easily sub MOA. I have a Lightweight Hunter in 223 that will go 3/4 with its favorite ammo. I have a 6.5 Creedmoor that with only testing 2 loads is MOA. That's with 3 shot groups at 100. While your 1.5 is not what I expect of Savage, it should be more than adequate for deer hunting.
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Great to know about your Savage barrels not fouling and cleaning up easy. Id be willing to bet its because they are button riffled and any manufacturing marks left are in the same direction as the bullet traveling down the bore. It would make sense that after they settled in a little they would smooth out nicely. IIRC Remington used to use button rifled barrels but switched to hammer forging sometime in the late 80s or early 90s or so I've been told. Ive had it both way with 700 barrels. Some seemed to never foul and were finished pretty well and some were absolute copper magnets that required a lot of work and/or polishing and were as rough as a corn cob. Ive got 2 newer ones in 270 that have 5R rifling which are supposed to be easier to clean. They are the best finished Remington barrels I've ever owned and they do clean remarkably easy. My guess is that its due to newer tooling as they haven't been making 270 5r barrels for very long. They both shoot very well...averaging 3 shot groups under an inch with their preferred hand loads but they defiantly don't shoot as well as your rifles above.
That's a bad bet. Button rifling unfortunately does not have that characteristic.
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