Savage model 12 FVSS.

[NF1E]

My wife Linda bought this rifle as a birthday present for me about 30 years ago and it has been great. Originally came in a Choate chassis and had an 8.5 - 25 Leupold Mk4 on top of a heavy fluted 26" .223 Rem 1-9 barrel. Added Jard trigger somewhere along the way. Now sits in an MDT LSS-XL chassis and sports a Night Force 15-55x52 Competition scope. Having a ball getting ready for the upcoming shooting season. Barrel was cleaned down to bare metal and has had an HBN coating applied. This rifle has loved Berger 73 gn bullets over 24 gn of Varget in Lapua brass. Whatta Hobby!

 

[GLShooter]

Nice. What chambering?

 

[NF1E]

.223 Rem

 

[K22]

Spending 2 to 3 days a week at the rifle range, weather permitting, I see a lot of Savages at the range. I am amazed at some of the groups I have witnessed being shot by experienced shooters. Certainly, well within varmint level performance.

 

[NF1E]

Spending 2 to 3 days a week at the rifle range, weather permitting, I see a lot of Savages at the range. I am amazed at some of the groups I have witnessed being shot by experienced shooters. Certainly, well within varmint level performance.

Savages, with the right trigger monkeys, have held their own against the 40x boys for decades and should into the future. Amazing what the right barrel/ammo can do. Whatta Hobby!

 

[Lefty2506]

In the sub $1K stock factory rifle category, I'd put a Savage 10/11/110/111 up against anything on the market with regards to accuracy. In 2019 I gave $350 for the Cabela's version of that same rifle, and it was NOT on sale. I dropped the cheap plastic stock right off the bat, and bedded it into an At One stock from Boyds. It has no problems shooting 1/2 moa at 500 yds with handloads. I've since moved it to a Oryx chassis so I could feed it from a magazine. Top loading the blind mag kinda sucked when shooting prairie dogs.

Mine wears a used Athlon 4-27x50 Ares BTR that I bough off here for around $400. My PD load is a 53gr VLD over a stiff charge of N133. Been a while since I clocked it, but I was thinking they are running 3500 out of it.

I don't like that I can't get a 2 stage trigger for it. If it weren't for that one fact, I'd never be interested in any other action.

 

[NF1E]

Installed a new *224 x 8 Shilen 26" ss select/match in .223 Rem VLD ratchet rifled 1-7 with 5/8x24 threaded muzzle yesterday. Set the headspace to close tightly on a quality .223 go gauge. Added an OSS suppressor adapter to the muzzle. Whatta Hobby!

 

[JSH]

Another savage fan. For my purposes I stayed with the Choate stocks, I add lead shot in all of the mold cavities. Makes them heavy enough I don’t need a spotter, 17FB,20VT,17 Remington, 204,223,22BR all built on savage actions.
Got lucky on a donor action, had a SSS trigger, wish I had enough for all of them.
JARD and me playing with the factory triggers on the rest.

 

[Turkeytider]

Had a Savage 110 Storm in .223 that I originally bought as a first hunting rifle. Hunting opportunities really didn’t materialize and it was just sitting doing nothing. Had done a little range shooting and found the action to be quite smooth, surprisingly so based on what I had read about Savage actions. Decided to make it into a fun and relatively inexpensive range rifle. Put the action in an MDT field stock, screwed on a Shilen 26” select match 7 twist bull barrel and put an Arken EP- 5 on top of it. It has been GREAT fun shooting into 3 and 4” gongs at 500 yards with factory ammo. Has been flawless functionally through 400+ rounds.

 

[Infrequent Shooter]

Those flat top savage 10s, 110 etc from that era are excellent firearms. pre accutrigger. That rifle cries out for a good stock, which you have definitely taken care to do.

 

[ArtinNC]

My little ugly . shoots pretty good also . Savage #12

 

[NF1E]

My little ugly . shoots pretty good also . Savage #12

Yes it does.

 

[Alguapo]

On the original post , I bought the same exact rifle about 33 years ago. It is Savages 10FPLE2A. They came in .223 and .308 w/ the Choate stock. It was marketed as the Savage Police Sniper Rifle.. I still have it in the original stock . It started me off on the Savage rifle rabbit hole that I can't climb out of. That rifle is a P-dog killing machine.

 

[NF1E]

That's the bait that gets us down the rabbit hole. Whatta Hobby1