A pair of 22LR mainstays shot against each other. Savage FvSR vs Ruger 10/22T

In the past few years I have been casually dabbling in local rimfire benchrest competitions. Well today in the course of testing a couple of mods I made to my 10/22 my ruger and Savage FVSR ended up in an impromptu shoot off.

Both have stock barrels. Both are pillar bedded into Richards Microfit stocks. The ruger is modified for a rear cross pin anchor. Otherwise both are stock mechanically. The savage has a ziess 3x8x40 and the ruger a sightron 36x

A little breezy today for tiny bug holes but consistent across all 5 shot groups. Ammo is SK rifle match from the same box. Both rifles favorite. Both rifles were around 25 rounds from a through bore clean when the groups started

I hadn’t shot the savage in a few years and honestly it’s impressed me enough that I might buy a little more scope for it. The The ruger factory bbl just isn’t inspiring me. It also seems to slightly wander POI

Average of 5 50 yard 5 shot groups
Savage .748
Ruger 1.0

Spats McGee said:

That looks like a well-spent afternoon!

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Especially for a day that started calling into work.

ms6852 said:

What ammo were you using?

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sk rifle match

New toy time in the form of an amazon bore scope. The thumbs in this reply are all the savage bore. By in large pretty uniform down the entire bore with a slight carbon ring. Of the two units this one actually has a bit rougher lede. This bore has 100 more rounds through it since the last cleaning vs the Ruger.

Now these Ruger pics are a little more interesting. There is a very pronounced crusty carbon ring present. The bore in approximately the middle 3rd has this strange to me appearance that seems to cast a shadow and looking had on almost looks crystalline like galvanized steel. Upon seeing this I have removed the barrel from the action completely and am really going to give it the what for with the cleaning. If this stays I probably wont put any more effort into this tube.

I'd love to hear your thoughts

It's always just sorta maintained. BUT I didnt buy the rifle new. It's entirely possible a PO fouled the bore badly with 5 bricks of wildcat or "Surok"

I usually subscribe to the less is more camp of 22 bore cleaning so I may have never cleared it.

It as some kind of fouling and even after rimfire cleaner, JB bore paste and brake kleen intermixes with many many brush strokes a little remains. I don't know if we were seeing lead or bullet lube or if any of this will result in improved accuracy.