Savage 10TR le/military

thump_rrr said:
I can now give you my story concerning my 10TR which was shooting 30" high at 100y.

Mine was bought through Herron Arms in Jan 2014. Due to personal circumstances the rifle wasn't tested out till early April 2015 when it was found to be shooting 30" high.
The scope needed to be dialed to maximum elevation to get POA to POI.
I tried 3 different scopes which were proven good.
I tried 2 differernt bases
Since I was aware of issues with other 10TR's I brought it on April 17th 2015 to the Savage authorized repair center Alain Depot in Granby Qc.
I left the rifle mounted with a Bushnell Elite 6500 4.5-30x50 on it.
I followed up several weeks later and was told that he confirmed that it was off and would order a replacement barrel.
I would call every month or so to see what was going on and I was told that there were delays in getting an export permit for a replacement barrel.
After several months I went back to pick up the scope so that it could be used on another rifle.
On the 24th of March 2016 nearly 11-1/2 months later I called and was told that the rifle was ready to be picked up.
I went and picked up the rifle, I was in a hurry and it was closing time so I didn't really ask any questions.
The folllowing day I went to the range to confirm that the rifle was shooting normally but that was not the case.
The rifle was still shooting nearly 30" high.
In the stall next to me was CSSA President Steve Torino who asked me what was wrong. I explaind the situation and we went through the testing again re-mounting the scope and I let a couple of other shooters test it with the same results.

At this point I had enough with this rifle.
Steve happened to have the phone number of Terry McCullough Vice President of Savasge Canada and suggested I call him.

The following Friday I called Mr McCullough and he seemed very interrested in my issue.
I raised the concern that I was leery of sending it back in since I may end up waiting another 11 months with no guarantee it would shoot straight.
He asked me to put all the details in an email and he would follow up on it.
The following week I got a call from Ernie Barriage, Sales Manager at Savage telling me that they are attempting to locate a replacement rifle for me.
The following week I receive an email from Andrea Hatton the Inside Sales Administrator with a prepaid shipping label for my rifle.
As of yesterday, less than 1 month since contacting Savage I received my new 10TR.

I will hopefully have time this Sunday to get out and test this rifle.
I am very satisfied in how Savage handled the issue once it came to their attention.
They took my concerns seriously and handled it in a professional manner.
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as long as it's shooting straight, it seems you just got one that had a 30MOA barrel installed. :cool: :dancingbanana:
 
bobdbldr said:
It seems like the bent barrels must have been a bad batch for sure as whether they shoot 3 feet right or 3 feet high, it is a similar problem. Same story once the head honcho was contacted, although months before I had emailed the secretary and gotten no response along with Ernie Barriage, but when Mcullough was called, he said the same thing, send an email, and withing a month I had a replacement! All I lost was exactly a year without my rifle and $51 to ship the faulty rifle to Grech!
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I'm not too sure about that Bob.
If it was a bent barrel I suspect that replacing it would have fixed the problem.
Is it possible that the receiver was machined out of square or that the top of the receiver was out of spec?
This is merely supposition at this point but more recently there are threads on Savage Shooters that the FCP-SR had similar issues.
People in the USA are getting them replaced within a month after sending them in.
 
thump_rrr said:
I'm not too sure about that Bob.
If it was a bent barrel I suspect that replacing it would have fixed the problem.
Is it possible that the receiver was machined out of square or that the top of the receiver was out of spec?
This is merely supposition at this point but more recently there are threads on Savage Shooters that the FCP-SR had similar issues.
People in the USA are getting them replaced within a month after sending them in.
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I thought of that too, but I think those fellas in Quebec didn't change out the barrel, could easily have been the receiver, but where each one is 30-36" horizontally or vertically or something in between I was thinking the bent barrel when screwwed on wound up in a slightly different spot. Either way something got missed in a group of barrels or receivers, if it was receivers the serial # should be close together.
 
Can anyone name a relatively good brand of rings that don't break the bank,, they will be for the 10tr to state and then will be put on a hunting rifle later as I move up! Thanks.
 
Whichever brand you get, get the square crossbar underneath, like these Leopold QRWs:

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Mind you, I use quick-detach rings (fewer safe kisses on the scopes, and saves a ton of space in the safe), which by nature are not as tightly attached to the rifle as screwed on rings, but once you get into these medium calibre rifles, it's good to have everything either torqued down hard, or have the inability to move.

This is my first 308, and I had used cheap rings, with a rounded crossbolt underneath, and within a few shorts, it started chewing into the rail. File out the burrs, by new rings, repeat.
 
I know a couple of us have reached out to 1km with 10TR, but this is the first guy (jwan320) that I personally know who's smacked the gong at 1,300m (actually 1,330 according to the range finder) Me and a couple of pals drove out to Merritt a few weekends ago and it was a pretty humbling experience:

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It was really, really pissy rain that day, with heavy wind chancing directions every few seconds, but he managed to land one at that range.

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Me on the other hand, failed dismally. The elevation was bang on, but I just could not figure out the wind for the life of me. Rounds splashing all around the gong, but no hits. I basically just made a lot of expensive noise that day.

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It was like shooting off a tugboat in the Perfect Storm.......@*&%$#@! Haha!
 
For those of you who have shot out to 1000, how many Moa/mil's of adjustment are you needing to make on your scope from a 100 yrd zero? While my scope is out for warranty repair I'm wondering if it's a good idea to put a 20 MOA base on. From my 100 yrd zero I've got 30.5 moa of adjustment left.
 
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