Savage 10 FCP HS

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For those of you who own one of these rifles, do you have any sugjestions on what weight of bullet to use? I was out with one today and found the 150s worked good enough to pick up pepsi cans (filled with water of course, Im to cheep to shoot new ones although it makes an interesting impact:)) at 300 yards. Once I changed to the 180s they were all over the place.

A black barrel in 25 degree weather and 30+ shells fired made for a barrel to hot to touch. Also wondering to everyone with heavy barrels how much your group expands as the barrel heats up. I found mine to shoot ok, but with about 1 in 5 shots sending out a flyer about 2 inches from the rest of the group.
 
Always enjoyed 155gr Amax in my 308's.

My savage/Stevens barrels do move ALOT when they heat up. Each barrel varies.

Even my BR quality pipes show a group increase when they get hot.

The flyers you are experiencing might be tied to the stock. I have always bedded my actions properly and just don't see much flyers unless my load or barrel is pooched.

The HS stock is excellent but the inletting is very generous. Doesn't take much to have an action wiggle to another POI. Skim bedding will likely solve this problem and make the rifle more accurate to boot.

Jerry
 
From what I read on many sites, 175gr SMK's with 46 gr of Varget gets the best results from far out... but I've yet to get my Savage 10FCP ...
 
I read on a 10 FCP ad in EE that these rifles are no longer being exported due to export restrictions in the USA... is that true? I only heard of this from that particular EE ad
 
Fry said:
From what I read on many sites, 175gr SMK's with 46 gr of Varget gets the best results from far out... but I've yet to get my Savage 10FCP ...
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Wow... that ones a little toasty I'd think. A full grain over max from the highest source I've seen, and several grains over some max published loads. I've heard lots of good things about 46 grains of varget with the 155's, but seems a little high for the 175's.
 
I worked up past & ran 46.1gr Varget with 175mk's @ 2750, not a light load. Was great for a factory gun.
 
I would recommend either the 168 Gn SMK, 167gn Lapua Scenar, or the 155 Gn Lapua Scenar. I don't know your twist but it is likely to be a 12 twist which should make working up a load easier.
 
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