I gave my old Savage LRPV a chance at the last 600 earlier this month, off a bipod. This is my fault, but the target trigger gave me fits.
In a 20 record shot string I probably had to re-cock it 30 times. These triggers shoot themselves down to the lightest setting, where they then de-cock themselves with pressure on the safety blade, but without letting the firing pin fall.
That’s incredibly aggravating and can be fixed by manipulating the two exposed (if un-stocked) trigger springs to a firmer setting. The problem may return though. However, I trudged through the string without attempting a rushed fix, dropping 5 and then switched guns for the rest of the match to a .243 custom, dropping 1 and 1.
The LRPV with many rounds down it could have managed minus 1 or 2 in the calmer first morning match despite weighing probably 9 pounds less than the limit, with a Harris swivel, but not when most trigger pulls fail, and instead of conditions, the focus becomes frustration.
That would be my only real reservation about your gear, trigger issues. To their credit, that is a solid, no-reward-facing-gap rear bolt “shroud” and of course those non-rotating second lugs will eat any .223 gas problem the small case could throw at it.
I never got them to shoot 90’s well either. 90’s are better suited for a 6.5 twist. I shoot .223 near sea level, not at travel matches, and published twist rates for the heavies sometimes don’t work well. The short throat may or may not cause inaccuracy but it will limit powder charge so much that you defeat the benefit of higher BC with lower velocity.
In a 20 record shot string I probably had to re-cock it 30 times. These triggers shoot themselves down to the lightest setting, where they then de-cock themselves with pressure on the safety blade, but without letting the firing pin fall.
That’s incredibly aggravating and can be fixed by manipulating the two exposed (if un-stocked) trigger springs to a firmer setting. The problem may return though. However, I trudged through the string without attempting a rushed fix, dropping 5 and then switched guns for the rest of the match to a .243 custom, dropping 1 and 1.
The LRPV with many rounds down it could have managed minus 1 or 2 in the calmer first morning match despite weighing probably 9 pounds less than the limit, with a Harris swivel, but not when most trigger pulls fail, and instead of conditions, the focus becomes frustration.
That would be my only real reservation about your gear, trigger issues. To their credit, that is a solid, no-reward-facing-gap rear bolt “shroud” and of course those non-rotating second lugs will eat any .223 gas problem the small case could throw at it.
I never got them to shoot 90’s well either. 90’s are better suited for a 6.5 twist. I shoot .223 near sea level, not at travel matches, and published twist rates for the heavies sometimes don’t work well. The short throat may or may not cause inaccuracy but it will limit powder charge so much that you defeat the benefit of higher BC with lower velocity.
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