What you can do with a Savage or two?

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Though it would be fun to show the mixed up fun you can have with a Savage. In the attached picture you will see what happens when two Savage Model 12s collide. One was a LPV in 300 WSM and the other a LRP in 260 Rem. Not surprisingly the bigger caliber came out on top so this rifle is a 300 WSM but on a Savage target action with DBM. Along the way a 20 MOA rail and a 4 port muscle brake got installed along with a Boyd's prairie hunter stock with the adjustable cheek piece (very slick how that works). I still have the HS Precision stock from the LRP available should that be more appropriate to the intended use that day. A hunting buddy has an unmodified 300 WSM LPV and it is shooting 0.5 MOA with the 200 grain ELD-Xs. That is the control rifle. I'm going to see if I can beat that with this rifle. He is running H4831SC in his but I'm going to run RL-26 as that is top of the list for velocity per QuickLoad (103% compressed load). He is averaging 2,815 fps whereas I should be able to get to 3,000 fps with the RL-26.

 

[Engineering101]

Made it to the range with the new 300 WSM. I had 5 rounds loaded with 66.0 grains of RL-26 behind a 200 grain ELD-X (Fed 215 primer). At this point there were zero rounds down the tube so I fired one fouler and then 4 shots for a group at 200 yards. They landed in 1.969" center to center or roughly 1 MOA. Not bad for a complete guess as to powder. They averaged 2,868 fps. I had the ELD-Xs 0.006" off the lands. From other rifles they also work 0.020" off. All in all they seem pretty easy to get to work. I've now got a ladder loaded for another trip to the range. On the top end, I managed to get 68.0 grains in this Norma brass which should give me about 2,954 fps. Hopefully groups will tighten up somewhere in that vicinity.