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Need some advice on a semi-custom savage for wife
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<blockquote data-quote="Bigeclipse" data-source="post: 1508186" data-attributes="member: 52437"><p>All,</p><p>I purchased my wife a savage lady hunter as a backup rifle to her other savage semi-custom (7mm08). Her semi-custom shoots lights out. Currently she is shooting Nosler 120 ballistic tips as a reduced recoil load for whitetails. her new backup rifle simply shoots terrible. I sent it back to Savage and they swear it shoots fine and even sent a target back to me showing 1.25inch group but I cannot get the thing to group better than 3 inches, due to crazy flyers. We will get a 1.5inch group with 2 bullets and then an extreme flier opening to 3+inches... this is with reloads and factory ammo. the rifle is pillar bedded (but not fully bedded) and freefloated. I have decided to not mess around anymore and to go semi-custom on this rifle as well. So first question is I will buying new scope bases and rings...which do you recommend to keep the scope height relatively low for a woman? it currently wears talley 1 piece base/ring combo aluminum bases/rings. Second question, is pillar bedding enough or should I have the entire rifle bedded? third question is should I go criterion, shilen or other for barrel? Should I keep the rifle 7mm08 or should I jump onboard the 6.5CM boat to give it a shot (remember this is not for long range shooting). Third question is what length barrel... 20, 22, 24? I would like to keep the rifle lighter and well balanced so I was thinking 22in which is what the current length is. Thanks everyone!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Bigeclipse, post: 1508186, member: 52437"] All, I purchased my wife a savage lady hunter as a backup rifle to her other savage semi-custom (7mm08). Her semi-custom shoots lights out. Currently she is shooting Nosler 120 ballistic tips as a reduced recoil load for whitetails. her new backup rifle simply shoots terrible. I sent it back to Savage and they swear it shoots fine and even sent a target back to me showing 1.25inch group but I cannot get the thing to group better than 3 inches, due to crazy flyers. We will get a 1.5inch group with 2 bullets and then an extreme flier opening to 3+inches... this is with reloads and factory ammo. the rifle is pillar bedded (but not fully bedded) and freefloated. I have decided to not mess around anymore and to go semi-custom on this rifle as well. So first question is I will buying new scope bases and rings...which do you recommend to keep the scope height relatively low for a woman? it currently wears talley 1 piece base/ring combo aluminum bases/rings. Second question, is pillar bedding enough or should I have the entire rifle bedded? third question is should I go criterion, shilen or other for barrel? Should I keep the rifle 7mm08 or should I jump onboard the 6.5CM boat to give it a shot (remember this is not for long range shooting). Third question is what length barrel... 20, 22, 24? I would like to keep the rifle lighter and well balanced so I was thinking 22in which is what the current length is. Thanks everyone! [/QUOTE]
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