effendude
Gold $$ Contributor
My money is on the recoil lug or the barrel nut.
I bought one of the first Savage F-Class rifles in 6mmBR. Newbies and kids shot the barrel out over a couple years. Put a new barrel on from Northland and put it back together. Same issue as described above, and barrel laid to side of stock. 3' to left at 100, out of windage. Rotated barrel 90, 180, 270* all with same result. Ran back to Northland as they were 20 minutes away and got a new barrel lug and nut. Tried lug first, no change, New barrel nut solved the problem. Barrel laid true in stock and shoots well to this day. We looked at original barrel, rolled it across a flat table and it was bent in the middle. Savage had bent the barrel while assembled to the action to make it work. From that moment on, I vowed to never own another. All because they wouldn't disassemble and replace a $3 barrel nut that was out of square. Their cost was probably $.25. I emailed the factory and got no response.... Sorry to vent!
Scott
I bought one of the first Savage F-Class rifles in 6mmBR. Newbies and kids shot the barrel out over a couple years. Put a new barrel on from Northland and put it back together. Same issue as described above, and barrel laid to side of stock. 3' to left at 100, out of windage. Rotated barrel 90, 180, 270* all with same result. Ran back to Northland as they were 20 minutes away and got a new barrel lug and nut. Tried lug first, no change, New barrel nut solved the problem. Barrel laid true in stock and shoots well to this day. We looked at original barrel, rolled it across a flat table and it was bent in the middle. Savage had bent the barrel while assembled to the action to make it work. From that moment on, I vowed to never own another. All because they wouldn't disassemble and replace a $3 barrel nut that was out of square. Their cost was probably $.25. I emailed the factory and got no response.... Sorry to vent!
Scott