savage 111 trophy hunter in a 338 win mag

[TreestandHunter]

What are the opinions of this rifle good bad I cant fine any reviews on it I found one don't know much about them thanks would be used for hunting

 

[remingtonman]

What are the opinions of this rifle good bad I cant fine any reviews on it I found one don't know much about them thanks would be used for hunting

I dont have the trophy hunter but I have a savage 111 in 30-06 and its a great rifle for the money. Paid $280 for mine and shoots right around 3/4-1/2 moa at 100yards with 150gr sst's. The great thing about savage rifles is that you can easily swap barrels if you want to change to another caliber within the Bolt Face size that you have. Takes 5min to do a barrel swap.

 

[nastynatesfish]

Depends what your going to hunt and if you plan to reload. 338wm is a great round with a lot of potential on the right platform. I had a savage hog hunter with a 20" barrel and loved shooting it. To me it's to much bullet for anything I do or plan to hunt. It's a good do all round with the right bullet from antelope to moose and big bear but to me just to much diameter.

 

[Outrider27]

When I was a 12 year old kid I met a man in Arizona who hunted with a Winchester Model 70 in .375 H&H magnum; when I asked him why such a cannon (as far as I know, that and a .22RF were the only rifles he owned) he grinned and said that he liked it because he could handload it for anything from gray squirrel to rhinoceros. I always remembered that explanation and my limited experience with a much newer controlled feed Model 70 in .338WM and the wide array of bullet weights and types available for it seems to put it in the same category, though I admit gray squirrel is probably a bit of an exaggeration for both calibers. As nastynatesfish says, it is a caliber with a lot of potential IF you reload. If you don't reload, you'll be a bit over gunned in the coyote to white tail/mule deer size range.

 

[Kenpo Joe]

I just bought a Trophy Hunter XP last May in 338 WM from Dick's Sporting Goods. I originally went there to get a 300WM that I had looked at the previous weekend. I notice a rifle next to the 300WM that didn't have a scope on it and I asked him what it was, since it looked like the 300WM but without the scope. He said that it was a Trophy Hunter in 338WM and he didn't have the time to put the scope on it yet. I had wanted a 338WM all along to go with the one I have in a Winchester model 70.

The first trip to the range was a catastrophe. I couldn't get it sighted in and after 20 rounds the scope fell off. The guy at Dick's didn't put the scope on right. My bad for not checking that. After I fixed the scope mount I went back to the range. I got it dialed in at 200yds and was getting 2in groups using my handloads of Nosler 225gr. Accubonds. Velocity was averaging 2802fps. Not a top load according to my manuals, but pleasant to shoot.

The one problem I am having with the rifle is that my reloads for my Winchester will not chamber in the Savage. I am thinking that the Savage has a tight chamber and full length resizing does not fix the problem. I'm keeping the cases separate for now until I can figure out what the problem is.