After waiting what seemed like forever to receive my replacement rifle, and get a membership at a local range, I finally got to put some rounds down range. The first couple of rounds were a complete failure. So after bore sighting again, it still failed to hit paper.......hmmmm seen this problem before. After some head scratching, my buddy took a look at the muzzle brake that I had put on. It showed obvious signs of the round making slight contact as it left the muzzle. So we spun that sucker off, and wouldn't you know it, the round hits POA. Obviously contacted the retailer where I bought the brake, a replacement will be here soon. Huge relief, after the last year of dealing with Savage it was nice to actually have a rifle that functions. Now to start doing up some test loads to find the sweet spot.
