.1 moa factory Savage 300 WM.

[TresMon]

A gentleman drove from his state to my state/home and dropped off $3500+ worth of rifle, optic, mounts, bipod etc. goodies and $200 "to get me started" on installing optics and accessories, going through the rifle and slicking it up and ultimately working up a long range load. He didn't know me from Adam, I was a just a guy he had read after a couple times on internet forums. With a handshake He was gone in 15 minutes. Well I went to work. Came out incredibly well.

200 lazered yards
5 shots
.223" c to c group
.11 moa
SD = 8fps.

Not bad for a factory off the shelf rifle that I put some TLC into. (sorry, could get the pic of the group to embed.)

 

[Dirty D]

Pics, want pics!

 

[jLorenzo]

Need some details, gun, ammo everything else.

 

[TresMon]

The Savage tactical rifle who's action was built for 338 Lap-U-ah mag...Whatever that model number is. (I'm being lazy at the moment.) BUT he ordered that rifle/action from the factory in 300 WM- so that the action & mag would be long enough for him to run 200 to 220 class VLD's at whatever OAL needed for best accuracy, max case capacity and them still mag feed. (SMART!)

EGW 30 MOA super slotty tacticool pickadilly one piece scope base. I tourqed it down with a skim coat of JB weld betwixt the action and base. Installed and lapped TPS brand MK 4 style rings. Bolted down the S.Sniper 5-20whatever variable HD MOA/MOA FFP scope. (or was it mil/mil? Memory severely fails when I'm tired.)

Polished everything in the factory accu-trigger to high luster and molycoated the important parts with Brownell's action magic II. Modded the trigger so that the user adjustable pull poundage could be set a bit lower than normal still yet.

Polished the hell out of the bore with VGF hard felt pellets and JB bore cleaner. and agin. and again. and again. and again.

Took it out of the stock and checked how the action mated to the stock. Played with torque on the action screws.

Attached the Atlas pod, inclined fire cosine teller thingy on the scope with bubble level.

Worked up a load with Berger 215 hybrid VLDs. Weight sorted FULLY prepped/trued & annealed Win brass. H1000. Wolf primers. Don't remember the MV, plenty hot and SD numbers of 8. CoAX run out of no more than .002" Sorted bullets via bearing length. Neck turned the brass just a bit to even wall thickness consistency a bit. Say... turned them to about 80% clean up?

Dang pic of the group still will not post up. The raw is in a .tif format, AND I have it hosted on Flickr. Neither will post here. What am I doing wrong? Haven't posted a pic on this latest version of the board yet.

 

[Diver160651]

The Savage tactical rifle who's action was built for 338 Lap-U-ah mag...Whatever that model number is. (I'm being lazy at the moment.) BUT he ordered that rifle/action from the factory in 300 WM- so that the action & mag would be long enough for him to run 200 to 220 class VLD's at whatever OAL needed for best accuracy, max case capacity and them still mag feed. (SMART!)

EGW 30 MOA super slotty tacticool pickadilly one piece scope base. I tourqed it down with a skim coat of JB weld betwixt the action and base. Installed and lapped TPS brand MK 4 style rings. Bolted down the S.Sniper 5-20whatever variable HD MOA/MOA FFP scope. (or was it mil/mil? Memory severely fails when I'm tired.)

Polished everything in the factory accu-trigger to high luster and molycoated the important parts with Brownell's action magic II. Modded the trigger so that the user adjustable pull poundage could be set a bit lower than normal still yet.

Polished the hell out of the bore with VGF hard felt pellets and JB bore cleaner. and agin. and again. and again. and again.

Attached the Atlas pod, inclined fire cosine teller thingy on the scope with bubble level.

Worked up a load with Berger 215 hybrid VLDs. Weight sorted FULLY prepped/trued & annealed Win brass. H1000. Wolf primers. Don't remember the MV, plenty hot and SD numbers of 8. CoAX run out of no more than .002" Sorted bullets via bearing length. Neck turned the brass just a bit to even wall thickness consistency a bit. Say... turned them to about 80% clean up?

Dang pic of the group still will not post up. The raw is in a .tif format, AND I have it hosted on Flickr. Neither will post here. What am I doing wrong? Haven't posted a pic on this latest version of the board yet.

On fliker

Open your photo stream or album image to view it.

Double click on the image you want to download

^ Click on the download button and save.. to your computer

v Click on Attach Files in the forum thread, wait for it to up load. Put the cursor were you want the image; then move the mouse and click "Full Image"

 

[PBWalsh]

For pictures on an Iphone using the movile version:

1. Take picture of rifle
2. Click “Attach Files”
3. Click “Photo Library”
4. Insert as “Full Image”

 

[TresMon]

Thanks for getting me up to speed!

 

[Dirty D]

I’m on my 3rd Salvage target action and that Luhpooey action is essentially a scaled up LRP action, I have been trying to get my booger hooks on one for a little while for a 300NM build. I love the write up but don’t tell anyone that Salvages can actually shoot.

 

[wade2big]

Savages can shoot. They just feel like shit. If you are only worried about results on target they are a steal. My buddy bought a 6.5 creedmoor from cabelas when they had them on sale about 6 months ago. With the sale, savages rebate, and paying with $100 gift cards he bought on ebay for $85 or so he is in the rifle for less than $300. He free floated the barrel and with american gunner ammo it will literally shoot one jagged hole groups. Blew us both away. did foul quickly but once some rounds went through it thats not a problem anymore.

The rifle that OP worked on shoots one hole groups at 200yds. Awesome

 

[Dirty D]

Savages can shoot. They just feel like shit...

I picked up a used Savage model 10 APO which really is a model 12 LRP action in an APO chassis and the bolt was a little rough so I wiped the bolt and bolt raceway off very thoroughly then cycled the ever living shit out of the action every chance that I got for three days. After wiping the bolt and bolt raceway off with a bore cleaner (the patches were dirty as shit) then giving a very light coat of CLP the bolt cycles almost as smooth as my TL2.