someguy2800
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I can't remember all the bullets that this one would blow apart. The ones I can remember off hand were hornady 50 gr sp bulk, midway dogtown 50 hp's, midsouth's house brand varmint hp's, hornady 52 grain match hp's, and maybe a couple others. I don't recall that V-max's ever came apart but they did tumble 1 of every 20 bullets as did all the others. Accuracy was about .75 moa. I did not have the tumbling issues with any bullets from 60-75 grains but accuracy wasn't really impressive, typically like .5" for 5 shot groups. This was a factory savage bvss. I sent the gun back and asked that they put a new barrel on it preferably in 1:12 if they could. They sent it back with no notes to indicate what they did and a 1:9 barrel. I went out to shoot it and the group size was the same and in 50 shots I had two tumble and one explode. So I assumed they sent it back without doing anything and I took it off and sold it on gun broker with an explanation of what had been done with the barrel and how it had been sent back to savage and would not shoot bullet less than 60 grains. The guy that won the auction emailed me the below,
"Does the paperwork from the factory come w/ the bbl? As I'm the smith that did the work, I think it would be cool to have."
(me back to him) "yeah you can have it. I will scrible out the serial number with a marker though. You mean you were the smith at Savage that shot it?"
"No I didn't shoot it, I have a shooter to do that for me, I just rebuilt the rifle, cherry-picked that barrel,etc. on that sheet I'm the S.P. above the first date, that is the date the rifle was completed. The second date is when it passed target and function. I want to build a .223 and that barrel is one of the best I've seen."
Thanks,
Steve
"oh I didn't even think anything was even done too it. It looked too me like you guys just shot it and sent it right back. It still shot 50-55 grain bullets the same (.75 MOA) so I assumed it was the same barrel. I was really pissed so I took it off and put a Criterion 1:12 on it. I am only using it for a varmint gun so I'm only really interested in shooting lighter bullets. Well now that I know that, the barrel actually only has about 50 rounds through it. I was really upset when I got the gun back and pretty much vowed to never buy another savage again. Thanks for putting my mind at eaze."
He works in the customer service department at Savage as a gunsmith and he had been the one that worked on my rifle. So long story short two 1:9 barrels in a row for me had the same issue. I replaced it with a CBI 1:12 and it now shoots 10 shot groups in about a dime size hole with 53 grain V-max.
"Does the paperwork from the factory come w/ the bbl? As I'm the smith that did the work, I think it would be cool to have."
(me back to him) "yeah you can have it. I will scrible out the serial number with a marker though. You mean you were the smith at Savage that shot it?"
"No I didn't shoot it, I have a shooter to do that for me, I just rebuilt the rifle, cherry-picked that barrel,etc. on that sheet I'm the S.P. above the first date, that is the date the rifle was completed. The second date is when it passed target and function. I want to build a .223 and that barrel is one of the best I've seen."
Thanks,
Steve
"oh I didn't even think anything was even done too it. It looked too me like you guys just shot it and sent it right back. It still shot 50-55 grain bullets the same (.75 MOA) so I assumed it was the same barrel. I was really pissed so I took it off and put a Criterion 1:12 on it. I am only using it for a varmint gun so I'm only really interested in shooting lighter bullets. Well now that I know that, the barrel actually only has about 50 rounds through it. I was really upset when I got the gun back and pretty much vowed to never buy another savage again. Thanks for putting my mind at eaze."
He works in the customer service department at Savage as a gunsmith and he had been the one that worked on my rifle. So long story short two 1:9 barrels in a row for me had the same issue. I replaced it with a CBI 1:12 and it now shoots 10 shot groups in about a dime size hole with 53 grain V-max.
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