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Savage B.Mag 17 Winchester Super Mag Teardown
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<blockquote data-quote="HntWhtTail" data-source="post: 938721" data-attributes="member: 38547"><p>Made it back the range to finish up my latest test, interesting results. My gun shoots good just doesn't shoot good groups..The center group was actually shot on 3 separate days, the circled shots are the first shots fired each of the 3 days. Ironically there is some consistency to the other shots as well as the barrel heats up. the 2 shots 2 the left of the 3 actually came at the end of the first magazine fired the rest, well too random to be useful. today I also added a limbsaver to the barrel ( whats another $10.00 into this rifle) the right group shows the results the circled shots are cold bore with at least 5 minutes between firing the low shots are 2nds and 3rds. the group on the left was fired with my marlin 17hmr open bolt close bolt find target fire, repeat...After the range I decided to drive up to a spot that we shoot gophers. I only saw 3 its still a bit cold but the wsm made a mess of the first one at about 75 yards and when his friend stood up I went for the quick 2fer and low and behold missed the 2nd shot. waited another 10 minutes and the 3rd one got up at about 125 and bang dead gopher. I dont know what to make of all this. I think I am sending it back to Savage, my extractor is starting to fail to extract and my rear action screw is stripped out. On a side note I spoke with a new dealer in a nearby town he has sold 5 and owns 1 bmag and claims 1 inch groups at 100 all day, also stating none of his customers have anything bad to say about theirs. All this makes me wonder what is the total production so far and units sold. do most people not care if a rim fire shoots 3" groups. or are there good ones out there. He did have a savage long range hunter 6.5x284 with dies and 2 boxes of nosler ammo for $650 (used but not much) might have to go back and buy it I hope its gone when I get there...</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HntWhtTail, post: 938721, member: 38547"] Made it back the range to finish up my latest test, interesting results. My gun shoots good just doesn't shoot good groups..The center group was actually shot on 3 separate days, the circled shots are the first shots fired each of the 3 days. Ironically there is some consistency to the other shots as well as the barrel heats up. the 2 shots 2 the left of the 3 actually came at the end of the first magazine fired the rest, well too random to be useful. today I also added a limbsaver to the barrel ( whats another $10.00 into this rifle) the right group shows the results the circled shots are cold bore with at least 5 minutes between firing the low shots are 2nds and 3rds. the group on the left was fired with my marlin 17hmr open bolt close bolt find target fire, repeat...After the range I decided to drive up to a spot that we shoot gophers. I only saw 3 its still a bit cold but the wsm made a mess of the first one at about 75 yards and when his friend stood up I went for the quick 2fer and low and behold missed the 2nd shot. waited another 10 minutes and the 3rd one got up at about 125 and bang dead gopher. I dont know what to make of all this. I think I am sending it back to Savage, my extractor is starting to fail to extract and my rear action screw is stripped out. On a side note I spoke with a new dealer in a nearby town he has sold 5 and owns 1 bmag and claims 1 inch groups at 100 all day, also stating none of his customers have anything bad to say about theirs. All this makes me wonder what is the total production so far and units sold. do most people not care if a rim fire shoots 3" groups. or are there good ones out there. He did have a savage long range hunter 6.5x284 with dies and 2 boxes of nosler ammo for $650 (used but not much) might have to go back and buy it I hope its gone when I get there... [/QUOTE]
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