savage precision elite

I had made a thread about my experience. Look through my started threads. I sold it to go full custom this year, but recently encouraged a local buddy getting into PRS to buy one.
 
I just picked one last week in 6.5cm. Had it out on the weekend and only ran 40 rounds through it but its definitely a shooter. 1/2 100 yard 5 shot groups no problem. With Hornady Match 147gr ELM. I read a few of the threads on them prior to buying included the cgn member above comments. Make sure you take the rifle apart prior to taking it to the range. My picarinny rail was hardly tight and oil all over the receiver between the rail and rifle. The large allen bolt holding the butt stock on was loose out of the box, 1 1/2 turns to tighten. My bolt was extremely smooth right out of the box. All I did was adjust the accutrigger, counter clockwise until I felt resistance and then back a 1/4 turn, I dont have a trigger gauge but its quite light and works for me. Much more detailed posts if you use the search function but Im very pleased with the rifle.

Heads up as I see your in Nanaimo, tomorrow Feb. 10th Cabelas is having an unadvertised sale on the Elite Precision models. The sales clerk told me after I bought mine so I could bring my receipt in on the 10th and get the difference back. Nice guy. Plus savage has a $75 mail in rebate as well. So some good savings there. I'd dont normally shop at cabelas but I had $1200 worth of store credit for an non firearms related item i returned.
 
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I had Northpro bring one in for me in 6mm creedmoor that showed up yesterday, haven't shot it yet but I think I'm going to be happy. As was stated above the scope rail will be little more then hand tight and they do test fire the rifle at the factory and mine had a little dab of silver never seeze where the trigger meets the sear so you may want to give it a clean before you go shoot it.
 
I tried to order a 6.5CM but in a leftie - September delivery at best. I have a BA Stealth and Evolution and I think the Elite is just more of a good thing.
 
I have one in .308 . Out of the box , everything was super loose . I had to go through every chassis bolt . The trigger is ok . Mine will adjust down to 1lb . I would prefer a proper 2 stage , but , this gets the job done fine . Out of the box , my action was gritty and the bolt face was dirty . I had to clean everything ( as you should with a new rifle ) . Mine had the classic Savage feed issue . It would pick the rounds out of the mag , but , it would not feed them into the chamber . There was too much pressure from the ejector on the case head and it cocked the round out of alignment with the chamber . Easy 10 minute fix was to grind a 45 degree bevel on the ejector with a Dremel . Perfect now . With a proper cleaning and a bit of polishing , the action is as smooth as glass now . With handloads , mine will shoot .5 - .6 MOA at 200M . Easily under 1 MOA at 705 yards . I have not tested the bullets that I really want to shoot yet . Only the 175SMK , 178 Hornady , 175 Scenar L and the 168 SMK . So , my tuning process is far from complete . I am confident that I can tune the rifle to shoot as good as I'm capable of shooting it .
 
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