I have a savage that is about a year old with only a couple of hundred rounds threw it. I have had much trouble getting this rifle to the accuracy that I want. With other rifles I can stack three rounds ontop of eachother at 50yd and at 100 yd 1'' . These are mosins. With the savage I'm lucky to get 2 in groups. Most of the time its 3-4 and kinda hard to sight in. Things I was looking was inside the barrel really close to the muzzle on one side of the bore the copper fouling seemed to go to the muzzle but on the other side the barrel looks like its never been touched by a bullet about 1/7 in from the muzzle. Another thing it came with a crappy plastc stock with improper bedding . This is a savage 11 vt with a heavy barrel and should shoot better than my mosins. I will poast some pictures soon as soon as I figure out how for I am a new user.