Not that I ever doubted Savage's accuracy, I just didn't know much about them. My friends kept pushing me to pick up a Remington (I do like them), but I came accross this deal on the Savage and I'm very pleased with it. I am sold on the accu-trigger. It has to be my favorite factory trigger available. I haven't seen many reviews on this rifle but it seems to shoot fairly nice. How do you fellows measure your groups? I've heard to measure the outside diameter and than subtract a caliber. Is this right?
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Mine have been very small when I do my part. The equipment (Savage 10 FCP-K) will put the round right where I want it every time.
The key to any firearm is practice, practice, practice. Most are more accurate then the user.
That should work mathematically, it will give you the center to center distance which is what we are going for.
The key to any firearm is practice, practice, practice. Most are more accurate then the user.
That should work mathematically, it will give you the center to center distance which is what we are going for.
Yep, and you always subtract a 50 cal
And be sure to include the blackened area around the holes. Great shooting!!"...measure the outside diameter and than subtract a caliber..." Close enough. Really only matters to bench rest shooters.
"...fairly nice..." Fairly nice, geezuz! Assuming the squares are an inch, that looks like a half inch group to me. Friggin' great out of the box accuracy. 100 yards? .308 or .223? Factory ammo?
Mind you, Savage rifles are well known for that. Well known to be the best bang for your buck.
"...haven't seen many reviews..." Savage rifles are like that too. Suspect Savage doesn't pay the gun rags and their writers to tout 'em. They let their rifles speak for themselves. Nobody else sells just an action either.
"...fairly nice..." Fairly nice, geezuz! Assuming the squares are an inch, that looks like a half inch group to me. Friggin' great out of the box accuracy. 100 yards? .308 or .223? Factory ammo?
Mind you, Savage rifles are well known for that. Well known to be the best bang for your buck.
"...haven't seen many reviews..." Savage rifles are like that too. Suspect Savage doesn't pay the gun rags and their writers to tout 'em. They let their rifles speak for themselves. Nobody else sells just an action either.
An Exact way is to measure groups is furthest bullets outside to outside...then measure each of the bullet holes and average them...subtract the average bullet diameter from the group size. (.308" bullets don't make .308" holes on paper.)
But if you don't feel like doing all that another simple way is the measure the outside bullet hole then over to the inside of the farthest bullet hole.
Nice group by the way looks like your Savage can shoot pretty good.
But if you don't feel like doing all that another simple way is the measure the outside bullet hole then over to the inside of the farthest bullet hole.
Nice group by the way looks like your Savage can shoot pretty good.
The squares were an inch. The distance was 100 yards with some some .308 I loaded. These were my first attempts at loading 308, so I'm pretty pleased with the results.
Justin42:
I would be durned proud to own a rifle that shoots that well at break-in. Kudos on the trigger-puller too.
Geno
I would be durned proud to own a rifle that shoots that well at break-in. Kudos on the trigger-puller too.
Geno
I guessing (by measuring your picture) that you shot about a 3-shot 0.27" group. Very nice indeed. I, however, put little value on a 3-shot group as even an O.K. rifle can occasionally shot a tight group by "compensating errors". I only count 5-shot groups because it reduces the chance of shooting a "lucky" group. Let us know how some 5-shot groups turn out. My bet is that you'll be shooting excellent (but not 0.27") groups.
"Congrats" on a great gun purchase.
"Congrats" on a great gun purchase.
I agree with you 100% on the 3 shot group. The thing that made me happy was this group was done with really hot and dirty barrel. I was testing out three different loads when I shot this group. I had three groups like this with the loads. The rest were still all under an inch with the exception of one group. I had a 16 shot group (maybe it's odd to shoot that many, but I just wanted to see how far it would spread with getting the barrel hot) that fell in at 1.16" group. I don't know if thats considered good or not for that many rounds since I'm kinda new to the whole bench rest shooting deal.
It's funny how some guy's shoot 3 shot groups,and others shoot 5 shot groups.
I used to shoot 5 shot groups,but all it showed me was I would screw up a nice 3 shot grouping.
I will still shoot 5 shot groups when I'm doing load development,but usually just do 3 shot groups.If I can shoot 3 shots touching,then shooting 2 more rds is just wasting ammo. To each,their own.
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