I thought i would throw this out here simply because it might be of interest to some of the members. I found this in the L.E. section at the savage site, and while it doesn't fit the long range niche that a lot of the shooters do here, it is non the less a fun 5-600yd+ rifle. And it meets my first two reqirements,inexpensive and fairly accurate out of the box.
It is a heavy barrel carbine (20") it comes with the accutrigger,digital camo and the accustock which is why i bought it. My shooting is divided between predator hunting in heavy timber/sagebrush, and benchrest at 300-500yd for the most part, this fills that spot very well.
The accustock is a very good improvement over the old stock, and does make the rifle a lot more rigid than the old style tuperware. At my first outing with this and a new scope, the scope went away at 55rds. of stock 150gr loads, before it went south it was starting to do two out of three touching at 100yds. The second time out, in between rain storms i was able to get it to settle down some more and while i only got another 25rds through it before being rained out, it was starting to do three touching at 100yds.
This was with a old bushnell banner 6-18x50, that works ok up to about 12x. At the end of each shoot i spend the last rounds on the 6" plate at 342yds, thats as far as you can go here. Since this unit has a four rd. mag, and using holdover i put the last three out of four on the plate, the miss was me drifting left. So all in all it's going to work out fine for what i do. (this was with some 125gr sp that i had put together)
I guess i should say that it comes in at 7lbs 12ozs. without base or scope, and with the new bushnell 3200 elite (5-15x50) that showed up last night, and just a set of two piece weaver bases, should come in around the ten pound mark. This scope doesn't have much in the moa so theres a 20moa base coming, but for now if i get time today, i'll throw the new scope on the o-moa base and head back out to finish breaking it in.
The rifle, scope and base can be put together for about a $1000, which is pretty cheap, and while it doesn't fit the long range profile of most rifles here, it would be a h*ll of a urban rifle, and very good hunting/carry/just for fun rifle. blue
It is a heavy barrel carbine (20") it comes with the accutrigger,digital camo and the accustock which is why i bought it. My shooting is divided between predator hunting in heavy timber/sagebrush, and benchrest at 300-500yd for the most part, this fills that spot very well.
The accustock is a very good improvement over the old stock, and does make the rifle a lot more rigid than the old style tuperware. At my first outing with this and a new scope, the scope went away at 55rds. of stock 150gr loads, before it went south it was starting to do two out of three touching at 100yds. The second time out, in between rain storms i was able to get it to settle down some more and while i only got another 25rds through it before being rained out, it was starting to do three touching at 100yds.
This was with a old bushnell banner 6-18x50, that works ok up to about 12x. At the end of each shoot i spend the last rounds on the 6" plate at 342yds, thats as far as you can go here. Since this unit has a four rd. mag, and using holdover i put the last three out of four on the plate, the miss was me drifting left. So all in all it's going to work out fine for what i do. (this was with some 125gr sp that i had put together)
I guess i should say that it comes in at 7lbs 12ozs. without base or scope, and with the new bushnell 3200 elite (5-15x50) that showed up last night, and just a set of two piece weaver bases, should come in around the ten pound mark. This scope doesn't have much in the moa so theres a 20moa base coming, but for now if i get time today, i'll throw the new scope on the o-moa base and head back out to finish breaking it in.
The rifle, scope and base can be put together for about a $1000, which is pretty cheap, and while it doesn't fit the long range profile of most rifles here, it would be a h*ll of a urban rifle, and very good hunting/carry/just for fun rifle. blue
