Savage 110 Switchback

[KMW 1954]

Found used on Gun Broker while looking for a Model12 Target action to build a short range target rifle. Took a little bit to mail the MO and then have then ship it to my FFL that right now is only open 3 days per week. so this has been in the works almost 3 weeks. This 6 ARC is nothing special, 22" medium heavy barrel with muzzle brake. 1:7.5 twist. Tactical Bolt handle, 20MOA rail and the much lacking plastic stock. This rifle is of the Bottom Bolt Release and a great advantage for me is I already have a Boyd's At-One Thumbhole stock that will be going on it as soon as I finish a winter rifle league.

Was going to post a couple pictures but looks like I need to resize them first.

For tonight I was able to get the Athlon Argos 8-34X56 scope off of my Model 10 and mounted on this. With this stock the comb is rather low so the cheek weld isn't be best. Also ran a bunch of patches thru it with some copper cleaner and wow was it dirty.

 

[std7mag]

I use EGW one piece bases on all my Savage rifles.
They are kinda tall, but lets you use low rings.
I'm running that & a set of their low Keystone line of rings on my wife's Savage 110FP.

Hope this helps!

 

[JEFFPPC]

Hi Kenny. One suggestion. Burris rings with inserts. Give,s you lots of options on zeroing or shooting long and leaves no ring marks on your scope. Yea, they have a skinny cross bolt but I have never experienced a failure. Torque wrench should be mandatory to get a scope mounting license. EGW base works well.

Found used on Gun Broker while looking for a Model12 Target action to build a short range target rifle. Took a little bit to mail the MO and then have then ship it to my FFL that right now is only open 3 days per week. so this has been in the works almost 3 weeks. This 6 ARC is nothing special, 22" medium heavy barrel with muzzle brake. 1:7.5 twist. Tactical Bolt handle, 20MOA rail and the much lacking plastic stock. This rifle is of the Bottom Bolt Release and a great advantage for me is I already have a Boyd's At-One Thumbhole stock that will be going on it as soon as I finish a winter rifle league.

Was going to post a couple pictures but looks like I need to resize them first.

For tonight I was able to get the Athlon Argos 8-34X56 scope off of my Model 10 and mounted on this. With this stock the comb is rather low so the cheek weld isn't be best. Also ran a bunch of patches thru it with some copper cleaner and wow was it dirty.

Let's us know how it shoots.

 

[KMW 1954]

So I did get to shoot it today but not as much as I would have liked. Spent 3+ hours shooting the last two weeks of our informal league so now that is finished and I can now swap stocks around.. Basically I ran out of time.

Today I had a box of Hornady Black 105gr and the 20 rounds of hand loads that were just thrown together. These were some 80gr Sierra SP that were leftover form a 243 over the top of Benchmark powder.

As I was running short on time I decided to get bold and attempt sighting this in at 200yds! Seeing as I was already set up at the bench from shooting league. At this point the rifle was roughly bore sighted at about 50yds, the same as I always do it.

Now the rifle was freshly cleaned and unfired or sighted so not ideas as to what to expect. Using the handloads the first shat went somewhere other than on paper. Pulled the bolt and checked the bore sight. It was way off to the right and just slightly low. Made sight adjustment and fired the second. It landed bull high, far right. third shot was bull low and still right. fourth shot, bull high. bull right edge.

From there moved to the top 1" dot. First shot center low, second shot center right, third and fourth shots formed the low triangle and the fifth and sixth were parallel. Again this was from 200 yds.

First observation is this factory stock has to go.

 

[std7mag]

Hi Kenny. One suggestion. Burris rings with inserts. Give,s you lots of options on zeroing or shooting long and leaves no ring marks on your scope. Yea, they have a skinny cross bolt but I have never experienced a failure. Torque wrench should be mandatory to get a scope mounting license. EGW base works well.

Let's us know how it shoots.

I prefer not to have the inserts.

I tried to lap the EGW Keystone rings. After 95% contact on 3 sets, i quit doing that.

 

[jroberts1968]

Once you get it going, you are gonna love this thing. I have had mine for about a year and a half now. As you noted, the stock had to go. I looked around until MDT had their Black Friday sale last year and ended up with a Field Stock. At the time, it was only $179. But it made a world of difference in consistency. I now shoot 105’s in both Berger VLD’s and Nosler RDF’s at 2730-2800 with either LeverEvolution or 2520 Into pretty small groups. It also likes 90gr Lapuas at about 3k with Lever. For the $500 I originally spent on this, it’s been a great gun. Have fun with it. It’s been a gateway drug for me.….