+1 for savage accuracy

Nice shooting, what caliber?

My Stevens 200 (Savage 10) w/o accutrigger in 7mm-08 shoots dime groups all day, great gun, great price for us non snobs. I outshoot guys with those high dollar rifles, I got a 3x9x50 Nikon Buckmasters on mine. ugly rifle, but it comes out of my safe real regular for hogs.

You gotta just love the way those Savage rifles shoot,as well as the Berger bullets.

Great shooting.

Nice group. Any others in that size range?

I shoot 3" groups at 550 yards with my Savage 110 BA, 300 win mag with 12-42 Nightforce on top, prone on the ground with Harris bi-pod and MY favorite handloads. 200 gr SMK, Lapua brass, large rifle magnum primers and 65.1 gr of H4350 powder. Necks trimmed to .0080"-.0075" wall, and trimmed overall length -.010 from factory spec. Bullet seated lightly and -.012-.015" back from lands.
Savage makes one hell of a rifle out of the box lately for accuracy.

My Stevens is shooting like a shotgun pattern since I bought it about 10 days ago. The Trigger sucked at about 8 or 9 pounds. I stoned the sear and trigger surfaces down and polished both surfaces with my Dremmel tool and a Polishing wheel with Jewler's Rouge. I also lessend the spring tension some. It lowered the pull down to about 4 pounds so far. I also found the front action bolt not really torqued down. It wasn't sloppy loose, but it wasnt really tight either. I also found one side of the plastic stock touching the barrel, the left side. So I took the rifle out of the stock again and ground it down a little on that side and it's not touching anymore. And one final thing is I handloaded some rounds to see if that would help. I'll find out soon as I'm planning on a range trip tomorrow or Saturday.

Nice : ) +5 on OP.

Every one of my savages have shot pretty much like that, even after my amateur gunsmithing lol.

I shot my savage on the cheap for a long time until i got anything fancier to play with. It is true that it is mostly in the shooter, provided of course your gear is as it should be lol.

Snake, i bet that you will find better groups after that tinkering. A 9 pound trigger is pretty bad on a rifle... being that my revolver breaks at like 7 lol. I've driven a few rifles that a little trigger job cut the group size waaay down. AND you barrel was touching? AND action screws loose?

You will be much better off this time. One thing to make sure is that the action screws are consistently tight, as close to the same tension as you can get. I would check them every now and then.

Glad to hear about your Savage! I've got a 25 in .223 that shoots sub-MOA with several types of factory ammo. Not every group is sub, but it can definitely be done if I do my part.

MY buddies new 308 savage stevens was all over a paper plate while my new 770 rem .270 win. at 1\4 the rounds was hitting golf balls. I think it was the scopes that came on them as much as anything else.(there are alot of 1000$ 1in.@ 100yrd. rifles out there if you get lucky the tag said 325$)

nicely done.... congrats on scoring a great shooting rifle...

I"m sure the marksman had something to do with the performance as well, so +1 to you?

sand bags? lead sled?

inquiring minds want to know.

Accutrigger model?

If so, did you changed the factory set point?

I have two Savage rifles, one with the Accu-trigger, and one without. I notice no difference in accuracy, and have a slight preference for the regular trigger, but not enough to care. Both are outstanding from an accuracy standpoint, even more so for the price point. The biggest problem I have with the Savages is that the stocks are terrible. Both are synthetic stocks, and they are so thin that the weld becomes uncomfortable for any period of time. In addition, it's a complete beating to find a decent Savage stock that you don't have to wait for 2 years to get, or deal with annoying craftsman.

you are just making us Savage haters that more hating!!

Snake is yours a 7mm-08 ?

great rifles!! Love my 25-06.... soon to have a new stock tho

Savage haters...

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How could anyone hate a great, accurate, inexpensive rifle like a Savage?

Simple. They bought a less than great, not as accurate rifle that cost much more than a Savage. So anything with a lower price tag must be bad because they aren't stupid enough to pay more for a gun than they should.

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Good Answer! Bwa-ha-ha-ha!

Guy at range, "You are getting really decent groups, what is that, a Remington?"

ME, "No, it's a Savage."

Guy at range, "Really?"

Me, "Yep, they are a bit ugly but they shoot true."

Been here and done that. Looks like you have a keeper.

Me, "Yep, they are a bit ugly but they shoot true."

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Ugly? Maybe I'm just partial


OP, great shooting!!

We've been shopping all over for a rifle for my kid to use this year. The one rifle that he picked up- and loved (we handled a lot) was a 270 savage; stainless, synthetic stock in near perfect used condition. It was like the only one we found in shopping half a dozen shops.

It was pretty easy to find many many of the big R flavor, but difficult to find the little s flavor. My conclusion; those buying them are keeping them and not trading them for something else. They seem to be keepers.

I bought it this morning and we'll go shoot it saturday.

gotta love those cheap rifles that shoot moa..
had a marlin 22mag bolt that shot bugs off trees, sold it when 22mag skyrocketed (price). Figured I would replace it with something I could reload.
stevens rifles are good if you smith the trigger.
savage 10 series need no smithin'..
marlin XL7 & XS7 are savage clones (barrel nut & adj trigger) also shoot moa