Your experieces with Savage Arms products

I have a Savage model 92, in .22 LR. I love the accu-trigger. I'd never use anything else for gophers. I've recently had to start shooting left-hand, because of an eye problem, and had no problem adjusting, because of that wonderful trigger.
Of course, when it comes to centerfire rifles, there are plenty of nice triggers. The trigger is no longer the main issue. I'm finding the comments very helpful, since I'm in the market for a new rifle.
 
Sambo2500 said:
I'm having a problem that I can't figure out. I have place 3 different scopes on my savage and I can only zero it in for 200 yards and then I run out of adjustments. I can zero it in for anything lower than 200 yards. Cannot figure it out. If anyone can help me on this. I would appreciate the help. I don't really need to shoot a closet distance but it would be nice to know if I could. Thanks for the help
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Change the rings?

Are they the same size height wise?
 
I've check that too. But rings and bases are both leopold so I didn't cheap out. That's what confuses me. I was told that the barrel wasn't mated to the action properly but that's hard for me to believe
 
Sambo2500 said:
I was told that the barrel wasn't mated to the action properly but that's hard for me to believe
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Who told you this?

Also are you in touch with the dealer or Savage about this?

I asked about ring height as last year I went to the range with rings of different heights on one of my rifles by accident and had the same bewildering and frustrating results as you. :redface:

I was hoping it was that easy of a fix for you.
 
Experience with Savages....

Savage 99's in .308 Win - great
Savage 10FP LE in .308 Win - great
Stevens 200 - great

Yup, me likey Savages....

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NAA.
 
The first rifle I purchased was a Tikka T3 in 300WSM. It would knock your teeth loose with the stock recoil pad and wouldn't group worth a sh!t. I traded it on a Savage 16FCSS in the same caliber and have never regreted it. The savage groups perfectly and has recoil equivelent to my Rem700 30-06. I was so impessed I bought a Stevens 200 in 22-250 and was severly let down. It patterned like a shot gun at 200 yds. Since I like thumbholes I bought a $69 Boyd stock for it and was amazed by the change. With just the change of the stock I have a real shooter now. The last one I purchased was a 111F in 25-06. It has cheap plastic open sights on it which I think were more of a gimmick than anything else but the gun shoots as straight as can be, but I found that all three don't like Barnes TSX's at all. None of my Savages will shoot those bullets straight but they sure love Hornadys. I also own two Rem 700's which I would put on par but cost almost twice as much as the Savages and a Ruger M77 which REALLY needs some trigger work. The only thing I wish Savage would do is offer more than the "popular" calibers in their rifles, perhaps 35 Whelen or 375 H&H, 6.5X55 Swede. Still they are an excellent gun for the buck.
 
I have owned about a half dozen Savages of various vintages and models plus shot a bunch more. I have owned and shot about the same number of Remingtons. If I was looking for a new rifle I would look for a Savage as the new Remingtons that I owned were not as accurate or well made as the older models.
 
I have a Savage Model 11 .223 with internal magazine. Out of the box very accurate but would not eject cases. The extractor lost the case as you pulled the bolt. Very annoying. I called Savage, within few days they sent me a new extractor and a spring. Now it is flawless. The stock is soft, especially the forend so it feels weird. My other complaint is that you need a forklift to lift the bolt after a shot. My Stevens 200 (poor man's Savage) was the same.
 
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I haven't talked to the savage dealer but I've been in and out of gun shops and none have suggested anything. Both my rings are the same heigth and I wasn't too sure about putting 2 different size rings on there. Thanks for the help. I'll try it out and see what happens
 
ykkid said:
Picked up a used 110 LH in 308, thought the trigger was a bit heavy, but got that touched up (Basix makes a couple of aftermarkets for it) and it shoot just great.

I'm pondering something like a 7-08 with the new accutrigger and accustock, once they start doing them in LH as well.

Have an old 340 as well, that Dave Henry prettied up for me. They are good guns, and a true working piece.
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Be careful with this caliber if you want to shoot anything bigger than regular lead bullets over 140 grains.

I bought a Stevens in this caliber a short while ago. I was fairly impressed with the rifle for the price until I found out the 7mm-08 has a 1-11.5 twist.:confused:

Luckily I found out before firing and the retailer was kind enough to take it back. For some reason Savage has changed their twist rate in this caliber from the regular 9.5 (which they also used to use) in all their line of rifles.
 
i bought a savage 111fcxp3 (package model) about three/ four years ago, in a 7mm Rem Mag and i went to the range and took a few shots; it was kind of hard to get used to the recoil as it does not have a recoil pad worth bragging about. i took it out to the range last week and was trying my reloads and i put three bullets into a group under an inch out of five shots. the two that went astray were my error. one thing i cannot brag about getting that inexpensive rifle is the trigger pull as it does not have the accutrigger and the action is not very smooth. but i was at our local store looking at some rifles and kinda looking at buying at another one, and the action was super smooth. so i would not be afraid of buying another Savage.

happy shoppping!
 
Stevens 200 - 270 win

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Today I was at the range and shot a 3 shot group just under an inch at 100m, followed by another 3 shot group just over an inch at 200m.

Needless to say I love it! And I've spent less than $500 bucks on the entire setup!!!!!
 
Can'o'nutz said:
Be careful with this caliber if you want to shoot anything bigger than regular lead bullets over 140 grains.

I bought a Stevens in this caliber a short while ago. I was fairly impressed with the rifle for the price until I found out the 7mm-08 has a 1-11.5 twist.:confused:

Luckily I found out before firing and the retailer was kind enough to take it back. For some reason Savage has changed their twist rate in this caliber from the regular 9.5 (which they also used to use) in all their line of rifles.
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That's really good info as I was thinking about 7mm-08 in a savage rifle for a while now.
I wonder why they made this change?
Also what is the ideal twist rate for a 7mm-08 anyway?

From the savage websight:
Stevens 200 short
223 REM 1 in 9"
22-250 REM 1 in 12"
243 WIN 1 in 9.25"
7MM-08 REM 1 in 11.5"
308 WIN 1 in 10"

Stevens 200 Long
25-06 REM 1 in 10"
270 WIN 1 in 10"
30-06 SPFLD 1 in 10"
7MM REM MAG 1 in 9.5"
300 WIN MAG 1 in 10"
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h t t p://www.savagearms.com/firearms/models/
 
recently picked up a savage 340b in 222 rem.i am quite impressed with the accuracy with factory ammo so reloads should do better.not the prettiest rifles in the safe but would definitly buy more of them.
 
Bought one of their package cheapo guns a few yrs ago. If you clamped it in a vise you couldn't keep that barrel from jumping. Accuracy? Forget it. Piece of crap.
Maybe we got the lucky hair, I don't know, but I'd never buy another. I took it back to the retailer we bought it from and traded it in (with exclamations and a challenge to prove me wrong, which they didn't, and never mentioned a week later when I walked out of the store with a different brand).
They look good, and the other models appeal to me, but don't waste your money on the pkg. Like I said, maybe we just got the ####ty one, nuff said.
My experience.
 
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