Help me choose Remington or Savage

[ThomasT]

Hey Krocus How you doing? My complaint with Savage stock wasn't mold lines or color or weight. It was because it was so dang flimsey. Thats the most flexible stock i've ever seen.

I even tried fitting a piece of poplar in the forearm channel to stiffen it up. I gave up and bought the wood stock. Its hard to beat wood.

 

[R.W.Dale]

Thats the most flexible stock i've ever seen.

It isn't any more flexable than the cheap entry level stocks from howa or rem, I have a howa 1500 stock that you can almost twist the froend around 20 degrees

flexible or not the factory stock is well bedded and provides excellent accuracy. A little dremil action at the forend and I have no problem maintaining a constant free float to the bbl. Even after opening up the channel to fit a magnum contour 35 whelen bbl. One of my other 308 varmint barreled savages wears a wood stock but honestly it doesn't shoot any better than the whelen with the worked over stevens 200 plastic unit

 

[JohnMcD348]

OK, well I'm starting to see the real potential of the Savage. I kind like the idea of being able to use the receiver for a few other chamberings and new barrels if I ever wanted to. Since I'm looking for .30-06 to begin with, it'll have a receiver large enough and strong enough for other magnum cartridges.

Can anyone tell me the difference between the 110 and the 111 savage rifle?

 

[TooTaxed]

You can check out the Savag models on their website. The 110 (previously the 10) is a tactical rifle, heavy barrel. The 111 is the sporter version.

 

[skinewmexico]

I've had some plastic Savage stocks that were flimsy, but still shot between .5-.75" @ 100. And if you bed a piece of square aluminum tubing in the forearm (of anyone's flimsy stock), it really helps.

 

[sarduy]

http://www.impactguns.com/store/SS-16107.html

 

[R.W.Dale]

It's been my experience with the 4 I've owned that the words HOWA and accuracy really doesn't belong in the same sentence with out the accompanying words lack of. Tis a shame to because they make a nice lookin rifle

if you want a gun that merely shoots OK then a HOWA is for you. Trust me been there done that too many times.

 

[Jeff F]

My thing is, I really want a 700, but, can't really see spending that kind of money on what I want.

If you really want a 700 then you should save up a little longer and get the one you want. If you get anything else theres a good chance you will be kicking yourself in the butt because you won't be happy with it.

 

[TooTaxed]

Excellent suggestion, SKINEWMEXICO! It's not difficult to rout out and stiffen a stock by glass bedding an aluminum stiffener...which can be an angle, round or square tube shape. The angle is probably the easiest and lightest.

 

[SimpleIsGood229]

My thing is, I really want a 700, but, can't really see spending that kind of money on what I want.

Then get the 700. It's better to save for a little longer than to compromise. I think the last thing you'd want is to be holding the Savage, thinking about how you'd rather have the Remington.

 

[jerkface11]

Just remember you'll spend more on the Remington but it won't shoot any better.

 

[JohnMcD348]

That's my thinking. I can actually afford the Remington, it's just difficult to find the one I want. Trying to find any hunting rifle of that type is hard to find with iron sights.