New Savage in 6.5 creedmore

[FryeGuy]

has anyone had a chance to play with one of these yet? I saw one a couple of weeks ago in a shop. it was very heavy, and for a $1k, thought it was kind of expensive for a savage. I thought I would try asking around before even thinking about trading for it. that caliber has always interested me. What kind of accuracy, etc, are you able to get with them?

 

[Thorbird]

Hopefully someone will chime in, as I would curious to hear about the freebore, etc. However, at the price point you mentioned, I think that I would get a Savage Target action, get a custom barrel chambered to your specs, screw it on myself, and find an F-Class stock to start, and then a custom stock to upgrade. I am curious about the factory version though.

 

[FryeGuy]

yeah, I was trying to estimate what they would offer for a rem 700vls, and how much I would have to come up with to boot. almost seems like I could get a new barrel and still have a little left over for smithing? not sure why the savage rifles have sky-rocketed in price the last few years.

 

[jonbearman]

Popularity and their fairly good accuracy you can get right out of the box.Try to find eric cortina I believe as he is on the factory team and may be able to answer your question.

 

[Jim See]

I got a savage LRP and a TC Precision Hunter in last week both in 6.5 creedmore, here is my post on Long Range Hunting about initial observations and fireing. I have not got a chance to shoot the 140 factory load but the ammo just arrived.




Last week I ordered in a Sav lrp in 6.5 creed and a TC precision hunter in 6.5 creed.

I have been shooting both and the results thus far have been interesting, I am shooting the factrory hornady 120 a-max load, the 140 a-max load should ship in this week.

I have about 60 rounds thru the TC 22" barrel and velocity is running around 2830-2850 fps. With 20 rounds thru the savage it has been in the 2930 range.


How they Shoot;

TC;
Factory trigger was at 3.25 lbs. and as light as she would go, I gutted the trigger housing and now have it at a very crisp and completly safe 2 lbs. No slam fires whatsoever.
This gun disapointed me with my initial inspection, cosmetically looks great, bedding system great, Chamber cut in the lead area visably off center with a bore scope inspection, 5r barrel looks ok, definatly not lapped, has some scratches that run down the bore in a straight line not "with the twist" so a bit curious how they came to be, the last 1/2" of the muzzle has some scratches that were put in it after rifling the barrel, not really sure what TC is doing. 1 st range session of 20 rounds left considerable copper fouling in the bore.

But this gun is a hammer, Second range session; the first 3-5 bullets out of a very clean bore shoot in about an inch, then the barrel gets good and copper fouled and it comes into it's own.

I have shot many 3 and 5 shot groups under 1/2" at 100 yards today. The last 5 shot group of the day after I let it completly cool off had 4 into less than .250" with the second shot going slightly left which I called with a mirage shift in the scope, opening it to still under 1/2".

So on the TC so far it likes; fouled barrel, CBS is in the group, definate sub 1/2 moa rifle with factory load. Is going to make a great factory light gun for the VHJ this summer.

Savage;
The bore scope showed a relativly nice barrel typical savage machining marks from the drill and button process, not showing the scratches as the TC had. This lead/throat was also visably unconcentric but not to the extent of the TC. The action on the LRP is structurally the same as the target actions with the adition of the cut out for the DBM system. This is nice and makes a much stiffer action than the factory sporter actions as the loading port is the small target style. Trigger was factory at 1lb, 4oz.

Well this gun has only seen one range session so I have yet to find it's consistancies, but what I will tell you is the first 5 shots out of this new rifle went into 1/2" at 100 yards, 4 of those cutting the same hole. I set the rifle aside for 5 minutes and the next 3 bullets went into .900" group WTF I said, had pretty high hopes with the first group.

So I don't let it cool and I shoot 5 more and all but one of those created a nice tight sub 1/2" group with one of the 5 opening it to 3/4". I give the girl a break and the next group is similar to the last. At this point with no brake-in I'm calling it, as I need to see how the fouling is laying down when I take it back to the shop. I'm sure this rifle will come around, so wait a bit and I will continue with it this week. IF it dosen't the chambers getting puched out for the modified class.
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[Erik Cortina]

Popularity and their fairly good accuracy you can get right out of the box.Try to find eric cortina I believe as he is on the factory team and may be able to answer your question.

Correction, I am not part of Team Savage.

Monte Milanuk is part of such team if memory serves me right.

 

[FryeGuy]

Jim,
that is exactly what king of info I was looking for. I was between those two manf., with the edge going to T/C simply because I already have an Icon and like it. I hope you will please keep us informed on how the savage does.

 

[Jim See]

I shot a few 100 yard groups with the 140 a-max Hornady load tonight.

With clean barrels the TC shot the first 3 bullets touching, 1st for that gun. Next group was 5 shots and was 1/2". I was shooting at the steel gong at 600 and the tc was keeping them in about 1.5" verticle and 4" horizontal with about 1-1.5 min of rt wind.

The savage punched the first shot from a clean bore about 1 minute out of the first 100 yard group. The next 4 went into about 5/8". next 5 shots went about 3/4".
At 600 the savage with the longer barrel needed one less minute of elevation. It was getting dark but first 4 shots after dial up were on the gong holdin about a 4 inch group.

 

[memilanuk]

A thread from another forum with my results thus far with my 12 LRP in 6.5 CM...

http://www.65creedmoor.com/index.php?topic=243.msg1400#msg1400