Savage 110 question
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BigBL87
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I'm guessing here and there with specific police snipers, but I haven't been able to find any info on widespread military or police use. Most info I've been able to find says the Remington 700 tends to be the preferred SWAT Sniper rifle.
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Not that Wikipedia is the best resource, but they do list the 10 and 110 under "sniper rifles" used by law enforcement or military. Both are listed in the US, guessing they see some use in law enforcement even if they aren't the most common option.
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When I worked with the MI state DNR, we did weapons qualification to serve as reserve state police in the rural U.P. They still had 30-06 M1Garands in inventory for roadblock duty (with AP and API ammo to go with). These augmented their standard M14 roadblock/rural patrol rifles in case of emergency. They also had various confiscated sporting rifles in 30-06 and .308 in service for reserve, training, and conservation/road kill use. Savage 110s and 10s were among those rifles. As far as I know, none were ever issued for frontline patrol use, but we did qualify on them and 2 of Savages in the arsenal were equipped with pretty nice Leupold or Weaver optics and had a glass bedding job done by the armorer. Officers could also check out these rifles for off-duty use, so that may have had something to do with it. The SWAT certified officers were all equipped with R700s or accurized M14s with optics at that time, around 2000.
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I should add, at the time, reserve officers were an important part of the enforcement package in the Rural Upper Peninsula. I thought it was a great system, utilizing non-emergency state employees for non-emergency situations. I was involved in many injured animal on highway and nuisance bear midnight phone calls (in MI, the DNR and State Police were joined entities, and I tended to get the conservation calls working with the DNR Forestry department). I was issued a very, very nice Winchester M70 with iron sights and a tactical light mounted under the barrel in 30-06 for the purpose and allowed to keep it at home. A box of commercial 30-06 was liberated from "disposal" for the purpose. I was told the rifle was seized from a poacher several years prior. Was also called up for roadblock duty, where reserve would have been mixed with uniformed state police units, but the order was cancelled at the rally point as the suspect was aprehended. I'm sure the 2 Savage rifles could have been put into service as tactical rifles. The work had been done to them, and the accuracy was there, but I think it was more practical for the department to standardize on the R700 platform as they were getting some surplus M40s in the door at the time.
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