What is my Savage?

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Ritchie

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I recently bought a Savage 110. It works very well, but after wandering through the Savage Arms zoo, precise identification escapes me. Hoping someone here can provide precise identification.

Savage 110, SN starting F259, polymer stock is hollow with stiffening partitions, black recoil pad, blind 5 shot mag, barrel has integral muzzle brake consisting of alternating rows of 3 and 2 round holes ahead of the counterbored muzzle.

And it shoots-early load development resulted in a 100 yard group of 3/4 " for 5 shots, 4 shots in a 5/8" center to center cloverleaf.

Oh, alright. 30-06, new Hornady cases, CCI #34, Hornady 168 BTHP #30501 (BC .45), 47.5 gr H-4895, COL 3.33. 10X fixed power scope.
If anyone can provide more information it will be much appreciated.
 
Sounds like you have been caught by Savage's reimagination of itself, which included redesignating their model line.
So, your rifle would now be either a Model 11 or a 12 (I forget which has the synthetic stock). Unless I'm misremembering and your is now called a 14--the numbers now group by barrel length and contour, IIRC).

Not that long ago, the 110 like was actually two separate lines--the 110T Tactical line with bull barrels; and the "regular" 110 line with "hunting" contour barrels.
 
The partsfinder won't work for such a low SN, seems like Savage does not want to deal with older guns.

I showed the rifle to a former gunsmith friend. We have come to the tentative opinion that the barrel was counterbored and drilled by someone whose digits are not all thumbs, giving it an effective length of 20 1/2" out of the original length of 22". The polymer stock may or may not be a factory item, so far I have no way to tell. Since it was sort of touching/not touching the barrel at the forend, I shimmed it with a piece of 1/8" leather between the forend tip and barrell.
 
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