AKElroy
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First, THE GOOD. I have posted often regarding the saga in obtaining a Savage Weather Warrior .308 Accustock/Accutrigger Lefty, Leupold 4.5X14X40 AO Vari X III, DeadNutz One-Piece mounts/rings.
I received the rifle last week after a 6 week ordeal, and promptly bore-sighted to a stop sign up the street. I had it dialed in 2" high, dead center @ 100 yards in just 6 rounds. I took 3 ammo types; Federal Premium 165gr, Winchester PowerPoint 150gr & Remington CoreLocked 150gr. I was hoping it would like either of the lower cost loadings. It did!
OK, I have no target pics because the range was slammed & I did not want to wait. Feel free to ignore my group size claims. As for break-in, all I did was run a boresnake w/ a little Hoppe's after every 2 rounds for the first 10 rounds fired.
Trigger is PHENOMINAL. I am guessing under 3lbs, zero creep, crisp let-off. love it! Recoil with the extra squishy pad is extremely light, less than my .243. VERY easy to shoot well. All groups were at or slightly better than 1MOA with the Powerpoints. I switched to the Federal Premiums, expecting a different POI, and it was 1" high and 1" left of the set zero for the Powerpoints. The first two rounds went into the same hole. The third was a called flyer that opened the group to .75“. The gun plain SHOOTS.
My only disappointments? The new bolt release is a PLASTIC button built into the trigger guard. The trigger must be pulled and the button pushed to remove the bolt. I hate it. Second, the mag spring is tight, and the feed lips are close together making it difficult to situate the rounds correctly to get them in the box. These are minor issues, but this reporter thought you should know.
I LOVE this rifle, and it is now my go-to hog & deer getter.
Now the BAD NEWS!
I HATE my MagnumResearch Magnumlight. This is a ground-up 10/22 based factory high-end build with a carbon fiber / graphite / stainless barrel, machined-in rail, Blackhawk Knox adjustable stock. I mounted a Bushnell Elite 3200 5X15X50 AO in Weaver top-mounts. It looks MEAN. It shoots like CRAP.
The problem is two-fold: First, and this is almost all of the issue, the TRIGGER IS HORRIBLE. I am guessing 10lbs easy, lots of creep. Terrible. My Yugo has a better pull. This, coupled with the VERY light rig, make for serious tremors before let-off.
Second, the pistol grip is very small. With my average sized hands, and normal grip has the trigger falling into the first joint. Extending out to the pad is unnatural feeling & nearly impossible.
I took an assortment of ammo; Ely match, Winchester Powerpoints, Velocitors, and Remy subsonics. The Powerpoints shot fine, and I set my 50 yrd zero with this round. My best group with them was 2.5 inches. That is 5 moa, friends. I was LIVID. I have a $120.00 Marlin 7000 heavy barrel that shoots minute of aspirin at 50 yards with boring regularity. I expected FAR better from this EXPENSIVE rig.
I tried the Ely match, and managed a 7 round group that I could cover with a roll-aid, fighting the trigger & bagging down the stock to no particular point on the target just to get that group. With a better pull, it will clearly shoot.
The gun functioned flawlessly, even with the subsonics. It will unfortunately sit in the safe until I can restock it, and put a new trigger in it. I am EXTREMELY frustrated that I have to go into a $900 rig (with scope) another $300 to make it usable.
Other gripes: The bolt hold-open lever is pathetically small, and finding the just-right position to lock the bolt back is difficult. Other than that, it is a typical 10/22, except that it was ridiculously expensive and does not shoot.
So, the day was not a total loss. I got to spend gun time with my 12 yr old daughter, she loved shooting the .22 even though she had to use BOTH index fingers to pull the damn trigger.
Savage -- 10
Magnum Research -- 2.5
SAVAGE RULES!!!!
I received the rifle last week after a 6 week ordeal, and promptly bore-sighted to a stop sign up the street. I had it dialed in 2" high, dead center @ 100 yards in just 6 rounds. I took 3 ammo types; Federal Premium 165gr, Winchester PowerPoint 150gr & Remington CoreLocked 150gr. I was hoping it would like either of the lower cost loadings. It did!
OK, I have no target pics because the range was slammed & I did not want to wait. Feel free to ignore my group size claims. As for break-in, all I did was run a boresnake w/ a little Hoppe's after every 2 rounds for the first 10 rounds fired.
Trigger is PHENOMINAL. I am guessing under 3lbs, zero creep, crisp let-off. love it! Recoil with the extra squishy pad is extremely light, less than my .243. VERY easy to shoot well. All groups were at or slightly better than 1MOA with the Powerpoints. I switched to the Federal Premiums, expecting a different POI, and it was 1" high and 1" left of the set zero for the Powerpoints. The first two rounds went into the same hole. The third was a called flyer that opened the group to .75“. The gun plain SHOOTS.
My only disappointments? The new bolt release is a PLASTIC button built into the trigger guard. The trigger must be pulled and the button pushed to remove the bolt. I hate it. Second, the mag spring is tight, and the feed lips are close together making it difficult to situate the rounds correctly to get them in the box. These are minor issues, but this reporter thought you should know.
I LOVE this rifle, and it is now my go-to hog & deer getter.
Now the BAD NEWS!
I HATE my MagnumResearch Magnumlight. This is a ground-up 10/22 based factory high-end build with a carbon fiber / graphite / stainless barrel, machined-in rail, Blackhawk Knox adjustable stock. I mounted a Bushnell Elite 3200 5X15X50 AO in Weaver top-mounts. It looks MEAN. It shoots like CRAP.
The problem is two-fold: First, and this is almost all of the issue, the TRIGGER IS HORRIBLE. I am guessing 10lbs easy, lots of creep. Terrible. My Yugo has a better pull. This, coupled with the VERY light rig, make for serious tremors before let-off.
Second, the pistol grip is very small. With my average sized hands, and normal grip has the trigger falling into the first joint. Extending out to the pad is unnatural feeling & nearly impossible.
I took an assortment of ammo; Ely match, Winchester Powerpoints, Velocitors, and Remy subsonics. The Powerpoints shot fine, and I set my 50 yrd zero with this round. My best group with them was 2.5 inches. That is 5 moa, friends. I was LIVID. I have a $120.00 Marlin 7000 heavy barrel that shoots minute of aspirin at 50 yards with boring regularity. I expected FAR better from this EXPENSIVE rig.
I tried the Ely match, and managed a 7 round group that I could cover with a roll-aid, fighting the trigger & bagging down the stock to no particular point on the target just to get that group. With a better pull, it will clearly shoot.
The gun functioned flawlessly, even with the subsonics. It will unfortunately sit in the safe until I can restock it, and put a new trigger in it. I am EXTREMELY frustrated that I have to go into a $900 rig (with scope) another $300 to make it usable.
Other gripes: The bolt hold-open lever is pathetically small, and finding the just-right position to lock the bolt back is difficult. Other than that, it is a typical 10/22, except that it was ridiculously expensive and does not shoot.
So, the day was not a total loss. I got to spend gun time with my 12 yr old daughter, she loved shooting the .22 even though she had to use BOTH index fingers to pull the damn trigger.
Savage -- 10
Magnum Research -- 2.5
SAVAGE RULES!!!!
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