Lets see your Savage brand rifles.

[Jimmy's]

I have two with the exception of one custom stock I'm not proud enough to share them.

[kenl]

Wow. (probably a stupid question) How does it shoot?

The poor relative of the Savage family, the Stevens 200. In 7mm-338 Lapua Improved.

Action work includes short truing and opening up to large shank threads, #8 scope mount screws with 3/16" dowel, magazine well opened up to feed CIP length cartridges. The bolt head was swapped from a magnum to Lapua face and the firing pin adjusted to accommodate the different length. The bolt body is shortened to improve primary extraction and the big bolt on the end shortened and turned down to guide the cocking collar. Rifle Basix SAV-2 trigger.

The barrel is Bartlein, 32", 1:8.25 5R, Muzzle Brakes and More Beast brake. Sharp Shooter Supply recoil lug.

Murphy Precision 60 moa mount with extra height, Nightforce rings, Vortex level, ATACR F1 5-25.

XLR Evolution chassis with hinged Extreme stock, long hand guard, and CIP magazine cut out, Accurate Mags 338 Lapua CIP length magazine.

Cartridges pictured, 7-338LI, 7-338, 300wm.

It fires the 7mm 195 grain Berger Hybrids at 3310 fps using 101 grains of H50. The pressure is far below what the Lapua brass can take. More velocity is possible with more pressure and double based powders, but the velocity spreads from H50 are very low in this pressure range. The Berger FAQ on these bullets said they were tested to 3300 fps during development, so this seems like a good place to stop.

Not sure on barrel life yet. Pretty sure it's going to be dog years.

[ShaunBrady]

Wow. (probably a stupid question) How does it shoot?

To be honest, I've only shot 2 three shot groups with it to establish the zero. Both were half inch. Previous versions of this gun gave most 5 shot groups in the 3/8" to 3/4" range, with anything nearing an inch making me a little pouty because it could only be me. I shoot prone off a bipod and load it pretty heavily so I can spot my shots, so I'm far from a bench rest shooter.

After experience with a straight 7/338 Lapua, this round was designed around a particular bullet and powder and has a well tuned QL model, so load development went really fast. I loaded 5 as a first guess for the fire forming load. That gave a little more extractor groove expansion than I wanted from the fire forming load, so I backed it off 2 grains and loaded up the rest of the box of 50. With the full power loads, same basic process but I bumped it a grain for the rest of the box. End of load development so far.

I shot it Saturday. It hit on the third round and went 3/10 on a 32"x36" target at 2200 yards. It only took 18.2 mils with the 195 hybrid full power loads at a local elevation of 2000'. It hit a 1620 yard 24"x32" target on the first shot with the fire forming loads. To fire form, I'm using what look to be preproduction 180 ELDm that Midway was selling as blems for 15 cents each.

The barrel has a 5" long 1.25" diameter breech and a straight taper to a 1" muzzle. The difference between the fire forming and full power 100 yard zero is only 1 click of elevation.

The gun is a little over 20# and the brake is very effective. Spotting shots is straight forward, even at 25x. It's pretty easy to shoot well and doesn't wear you out. Double plugging is necessary, even outdoors.

[AGGRO]

The poor relative of the Savage family, the Stevens 200. In 7mm-338 Lapua Improved.

Action work includes short truing and opening up to large shank threads, #8 scope mount screws with 3/16" dowel, magazine well opened up to feed CIP length cartridges. The bolt head was swapped from a magnum to Lapua face and the firing pin adjusted to accommodate the different length. The bolt body is shortened to improve primary extraction and the big bolt on the end shortened and turned down to guide the cocking collar. Rifle Basix SAV-2 trigger.

The barrel is Bartlein, 32", 1:8.25 5R, Muzzle Brakes and More Beast brake. Sharp Shooter Supply recoil lug.

Murphy Precision 60 moa mount with extra height, Nightforce rings, Vortex level, ATACR F1 5-25.

XLR Evolution chassis with hinged Extreme stock, long hand guard, and CIP magazine cut out, Accurate Mags 338 Lapua CIP length magazine.

Cartridges pictured, 7-338LI, 7-338, 300wm.

It fires the 7mm 195 grain Berger Hybrids at 3310 fps using 101 grains of H50. The pressure is far below what the Lapua brass can take. More velocity is possible with more pressure and double based powders, but the velocity spreads from H50 are very low in this pressure range. The Berger FAQ on these bullets said they were tested to 3300 fps during development, so this seems like a good place to stop.

Not sure on barrel life yet. Pretty sure it's going to be dog years.

Holy throat erosion bat man, I have wood. NEED~

[DULLYJAY]

It is for sell!