New Savage "specialty series"

I'm always interested to see a rifle that is advertised to fill a specialized niche, especially if that niche is a bear gun. In fact I was hoping to see something special, maybe along the lines of a Ruger Alaskan. I was disappointed. Were I in charge over at Savage, I'd have sent the designers back to the drawing board on this one. To the majority of people looking for a bear gun, "bear,” means black bear, and black bears are seldom shot at long range.

So what do these guys do? They build their bear rifles with 23" barrels, they don't offer the rifles in .308 or .30/06, they add a muzzle brake or a BOSS, they install that dopey Accu-trigger, and don't install iron sights. The Savage version of the scout rifle or for that matter a Savage 99 would be far superior for hunting black bears than one of these. I'm sure they will sell though, and in the end thats what its about.
 
What a lot of crap. Other than some pretty camo socks there's nothing special about them. Usual marketing bs. The bolt action slug gun was the only thing of interest, if only it came with some irons though. There's so many cool guns manufaturers could be building yet all they do is pump out the same boring stuff year after year.
 
NolanOsborn said:
11 is a short action, 111 is long. Savage does this with all of their models, the 2 digit ones are short actions, the 3 digits long.
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Thanks that makes sense. With all of Savage,s model numbers and letters it was confusing to me.
I would really like that lightweight hunter in 260.Does any one know where to get one in Canada
 
Boomer said:
I'm always interested to see a rifle that is advertised to fill a specialized niche, especially if that niche is a bear gun. In fact I was hoping to see something special, maybe along the lines of a Ruger Alaskan. I was disappointed.

So what do these guys do? They build their bear rifles with 23" barrels, they don't offer the rifles in .308 or .30/06, they add a muzzle brake or a BOSS, they install that dopey Accu-trigger, and don't install iron sights.
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I agree. A 20" barrel with good open sights and available in .358 Win for short action and .35 Whelen and/or 9.3x62 in the long action would make sense.
 
Realistically how many people buying the " Bear Hunter " rifles will be actually using them for bears? Probably very few. Also I imagine that many tens of 100 yard whitetails will fall to the " Long Range " hunter for ever over 300 yard one. All marketing, I find myself moving away from Savage and the other big names and turning to Ruger at least for rifles.
 
Thanks Nolan, I see that now but this morning as per the Savage siteI could have sworn the short action did not. Oh well I'll have to stop using aluminum cookware.
 
You were right.

Gerald said:
Thanks Nolan, I see that now but this morning as per the Savage siteI could have sworn the short action did not. Oh well I'll have to stop using aluminum cookware.
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When I originally looked at it ( when I started the thread ) it said that both of them had blind magazines. It seems they are just fixing some website errors.
 
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