i loved mine, as soon as i can afford such luxuries as a gun budget again i intend to buy one of the Accu-trigger equipped varmint guns either 12FV or a 10FP to replace the 110FP that i had to sell a few years ago.
The only place I could see any room for improvement was the synthetic stock was a little bit flimsy up around the barrel.Out towards the tip, you could just barely get it to make contact with the barrel (which is free floated, and super thick) with a firm grip.
Yes, the Factory synthetic stock is the only remaning defect in the Savage line. Bell & Carlson, Stockade (same as the stocks from Sharp shooter's supply), and others are making a decent living off of that thing. used to be the advice on how to get decent groups out of a heavy barrel savage was "take home order new trigger and new stock, swap new for old, shoot to heart's content" now with Accu-trigger you only need a livable stock.
In a normal offhand grip, this isn't a problem and certainly not when your using a rest. I really doubt that it has any effect at all, but it still moves.
(note: the following comentary is based on the personal experience of myself and 3-4 other Savage owners i have shot with/ spoken with at length. and reflects the experience of same. it is NOT nessisarily true of all eamples of the Savage)
It DOES make a difference, and depending on the shooter it can be a HUGE difference. the black synth Savage stock is overly flexible enough to amplify or exacerbate any mistake or even small change in how the shooter holds the rifle. something as simple as "i think i'll try it from the bipod today instead of the rest" can lead to a fairly large shift in POI and/or a disturbing change in group size.
as for my own personal experience with this aspect, the gun was good enough for what i'd been using it for (300yds and under, with no "serious" groups done beyound 1-150) but i DID notice that if i wasn't exceedingly careful about how
I interacted with the rifle that my flyers increased and the groups grew by up to 50% or more.
Now that i belong to a club with a decent 600yard range and am thinking of participating in the monthly 3x600 "F-class" matches, when i buy my next one, i'll probably sell the factory stock to my FFL to either offset the cost of the aftermarket unit or simply trade it for more "break-in ammo".
In other words the Savage is a great gun, but the synth stocked ones are on a VERY iffy stock (savage laminated stocks are great i understand). the units that are ont eh FV and FP models are OK to start out with, to get teh gun broken in and to get shooting, but a serious shooter should be saving for the replacement unit almost as soon as if not before the rifle arrives at the FFL.