Hey fellas, i recently bought a savage 11 package deal which included a nikon 3-9 bdc scope, in 300wsm. This is exclusively a hunting rifle. Now to my findings, make sure you take the mounts and optics off and completely retorque to specs. Check the screw on the front mount mine was to long and wouldnt allow the base to be tightened down so i had the run to wally world and buy a set of weaver mounts and used only the screws with the orginal factory bases and it worked, so just some fyi for you..on my 1st range trip i was very dissatisfied with the accuracy being almost 5 inches at 100yrds. And also using Hornady Whitetail i had to hammer the bolt open with palm of my hand. Ramndom fliers also. So i decided 2 diassemble the rifle and made sure action lug was properly seated against the stock and torqued the front action screw to 40in lbs and the rear to 35in lbs. Reassembled the rifle and boight a box of Norma big game ammo 150 nosler ballistic tips and back off to the range i went. As you can see below what a drastic improvement i had. Just felt like i had to post my findings incase someone else was having issues. As you can see norma put 3 into just a hair under 1/2 moa. After the rifle was worked over.
Savage 11 rifle accuracy issue resolved...
- Thread starter Shooter89
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Yes I’ve had to play with torque specs on quite a few factory guns. Seems like all the factory mounts are never torqued. I just tuned up a rifle for a female friend. It was never touched from the factory. Every screw was loose. Took it from a 5 inch gun to an inch and a quarter.
Not only was the mounting screws lose but the front screw was to long which would make the mount lose even when screw was tightened. When i bought mounts from EGW they give you 3 long screws and 1 shorter screw for this purpose. Kinda makes a person wonder why savage hasnt caught this and why there are reviews of accuracy problems. Must have been a combination of things to make it go from 5inches to under 1/2moa. I have no recrets about buying it. Savage makes quality firearms for the dollar, better than other companies for sure. Just seems if they would tighten down on assembly of package guns and who is putting the stocks on the gripes of accuracy problems would mostly dissapear. Its hard to find a savage that doesnt shoot, and if a problem does arise savage has the best customer servise i have encountered thus far.
Yep same here... seems like you take a chance no matter what a person buys. I always try to buy from thoes with the best customer service even if i have to pay alittle more, saves a headache if a problem does arise.
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