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i went shooting with a friend, he shot a savage 308 12bvss and got m.o.a. at 100 yds with hand loads from another rifle. i was impressed, how it shot straight out of the box. anyone have experiance with this rifle, such as the pro and cons. i am thinking of one in the near future. any advice would be helpful.
 
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They work very very well. Have yet to see a heavy barreled Savage not shoot MOA or much better with handloads. Do get the stock/action bedded properly and groups will shrink.

Pity they stopped making all sorts of cartridges but the ones coming in 07 look really good.

The 223, 243, 22/250 are all good choices if you don't want the recoil of the 308. The 243 and fast twist 22/250 (new for 2007) will give better LR ballistics then the 223/308.

Jerry
 
458lott said:
i went shooting with a friend, he shot a savage 308 12bvss and got m.o.a. at 100 yds with hand loads from another rifle. i was impressed, how it shot straight out of the box. anyone have experiance with this rifle, such as the pro and cons. i am thinking of one in the near future. any advice would be helpful.
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Cant go wrong with it. Dont know what you are planning to do with it, but
1 moa is a big group for that rifle, with handloads. The only thing I did not like was the blade on the accutrigger. I took mine off, easily done, and much preferred it that way. Mine was a .243 which was sweet.
 
The BVSS rifle is a great package for what you get. Target style heavy prone laminate with ambidextrous Wundhammer palm swell, dual pillar bedding stock. AccuTrigger™, stainless barreled action, heavy fluted, free-floating and button-rifled barrel, internal box magazine and swivel studs. There is hardly a thing they left out. This is the perfect benchrest rifle out of the box..for only $800. I don't shoot a 12bvss, but I do have 2 other savages in the same action and they shoot very well, I think they are a dream rifle. Savage does them right for sure.
 
I turned one into a target rifle for the ORA by installing a rail and handstop, and adding iron sights front and rear. I never did test rifle the rifle myself. Inital range report was that it shot OK, a little over 1 MOA. When I had the action out of the stock I noticed the pillars were just touching on the high points. The rifle was then bedded by someone else and shot even better. It shot less then 1 MOA elevation at 1000 yards with an experience shooter behind it.
For the price of them I would say they are a good entry level competition rifle and with a small amount of work (bedding) they can be as good as any off the shelf rifle on the range.
 
Ya, the new Savage 22/250 VLP will be coming in a 1 in 9" twist for 2007, in addition to the current 1 in 12". I couldn't wait for that one, but I'm still super happy with my VLP! Bullets don't like to miss them coyotes :p
 
I agree with Maynard about the need for getting the rifle bedded.
As with most factory bedding, the "pillar bedding" on these rifles is a joke.
My BVSS .223 had some accuracy issues that increased with velocity and bullet weight until I got it properly bedded with devcon. If it had been a .308, I would have probably asked for larger pillars too.
 
With the second set of reloads in my 112BVSS in .25-06, at 185 yds I shot a three shot group measuring 0.486". No compliants and I'm not 'touching' anything!!! At this time, I'm not even going to try a neck sizing die I recently acquired.
 
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