Yes you read it right. A 111, orange camo accustock, fiber optic sights, 20" barrel w/removable magazine. NIB with properly marked box and all papers. Distributor had three, now has two. My 99s will probably not speak to it.

20" barrel?!!!
Peter.

It's a little gaudy but other than that I like it!

Definitely a bear-in-the-bush gun.

wow! same color as some dirty diapers as I recall...

Nothing a little olive drab spray paint can't fix!

Ungulates and Ursus are color blind. Not planning to use it as an urban sniper rifle.
SAKO & Steyr also made/make a 375 H&H with an orange camo scheme. Must be a "Euro thing".
As for bbl length, my Merkel SR-1 9.3x62 semi auto only has an 18" bbl. Max loads of 3031 (most would say too fast for a 9.3) equal factory ammo through the Chrony. I'm sure this one will do as well or better.
Ray if your diapers were that color, I'd see a Dr. quickly as you are bleeding out !

The looks of those Savage actions really make me wanna take a shit every time.

Looks like a nice driven boar gun!

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My 99s will probably not speak to it.

MOOSE-HUNTER Look at a benched test target. You might stop pooping.

+10, the Savage may not look like a Holland & Holland Mauser, but boy they work. Dominate F Class and my new build in a 338 RUM will be a 2000 yard gong ringer. My friend's Wallie World birch stocked 300 Winne will drop 3 168 TSXs in 3/4" with max loads of 4831 all day. Every time it has been shot at game, the result is "flop dead".
The Marlin "knock off" looks nicer and shoots just as well. XLC 270 6 shots @100.

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Originally posted by Moose-Hunter:
The looks of those Savage actions really make me wanna take a shit every time.

While a Savage won't win any beauty contest they shoot well and are accurately machined.

And Savage at least seems responsive to their customer's requests.

Sounds like you need to keep one close by, MOOSE-HUNTER...just for those times you really get constipated.

Luck

Kinda ugly but every new rifle model chambered in 9.3x62 helps to make it more mainstream.

Moose-Hunter thanks for the Best Laugh I've had all week.





Now if I could just find out where to mount the toilet paper holder I'd have the best bear gun around.

Brad

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Originally posted by Moose-Hunter:
The looks of those Savage actions really make me wanna take a shit every time.

Criminal! Just plain criminal!

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Originally posted by Moose-Hunter:
The looks of those Savage actions really make me wanna take a shit every time.

well shit then, and be done with it.

This thread has me laughing out loud to myself.

Great humor. Thanks

I'll bet good money that the Savage shoots as well as the Blaser.

Now, if only we could get one in the new Ruger American in 9.3x62 with the rotary magazine, three lug bolt, and the orange stock.

KB

Hopefully you know that I'm just having fun with ya'll. I certainly don't mean to offend anyone's choice.

Of course ya got me in the midst of speculation, since I don't own a Savage or a Blaser. From some of the stuff I hear and read, the Savage is pretty accurate. Pretty is as pretty does, as they say. I doubt that it can beat a Blaser, but I figure it can ring the 500 yd gong too.

I still think this is a fun thread.

KB

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Originally posted by Jeff Sullivan:
I have a R93 that is basically identical to that gun.

That is the first R93 that I have actually liked the looks of.

Savages have a well earned reputation for accuracy. As far as I'm concerned, that's where it ends. I don't have to buy a savage to get an accurate rifle.

(Nor do I have to buy one to have a bowel movement.)

It is amusing that there are so many "experts" who don't own a 9.3x62, don't own a Savage and, most probably, have never hunted anything that couldn't be killed with a 308.
The Savage bolt actions seem to be dominating a lot of target shooting, have a well earned reputation for accuracy, are inexpensive and have the abilty to change calibers in about 15 minutes.
This is not a "mine is bigger than yours" thread, it's about a rather unusual Savage rifle. Let's stay on topic.

First 9.3? Have you put any rounds through it yet? If so, how do you like it? I,m guessin some where around a seven and a half pound gun..
Saw one a couple months ago on gunbroker,I think, definitely made me curious..
Like the fiber front sight. Looks like a handy little bugger..

do you have a part number??
i checked the savage website and could not find any rifle chambered in 9.3
cam

I have 6 or 7 savage varmint rifles in the house i wouldn't own one for big game.

And I wouldn't buy one with a calf scoures orange stock

In order:

- no not first 9.3, have an RF Sedgley built for my maternal Grand-Father on an 03 Springfield and a Merkel SR-1 semi auto. Love the caliber.

- you are correct it is not on the Savage website (are as a lot of others) Part # is 18389.

- Not owning one for big game is your choice. Foolish, but yours. One would assume such an opinion would have some documented data to back it up, but we know it does not as there is not a single documented failure of a Savage bolt action failing in the field. As for the stock color, I am a fancy wood guy myself, but this was just too interesting to miss as well as being a helluva walk about Elk rifle in our country where Grizzly Bears abound.

See what I mean about wood......











Ice Cream comes in many flavors !

No documented failures I can't even begain to count the miss feeds, stuck cases that I have had with my savage rifles. Loss two extactors when I go On a P dog trip I carry extras.

Good varmit rifles but not relieable enough for me to use on big game.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:
No documented failures I can't even begain to count the miss feeds, stuck cases that I have had with my savage rifles. Loss two extactors when I go On a P dog trip I carry extras.

Good varmit rifles but not relieable enough for me to use on big game.

+1

Townsend Whelen never shot a modern Savage.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:
No documented failures I can't even begain to count the miss feeds, stuck cases that I have had with my savage rifles. Loss two extactors when I go On a P dog trip I carry extras.

Good varmit rifles but not relieable enough for me to use on big game.

Not to count that yes Savage barrels are accurate but they don't stay accurate for long IF YOU SHOOT A LOT because they are soft and wear out pretty fast. For hunting? Terrific

That is a pretty cool rifle the op has and I would image that one being in 9.3 will be shooting for a long time.

I don't Joe about savage barrels not lasting I have several with multiable thousands arounds down the tubes and they still shoot well.

Where are you getting the barrel info my one savage 223 has 3500 plus rounds through it on the low end. It will still keep them under 3/4 of an inch.

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Originally posted by p dog shooter:
I don't Joe about savage barrels not lasting I have several with multiable thousands arounds down the tubes and they still shoot well.

Where are you getting the barrel info my one savage 223 has 3500 plus rounds through it on the low end. It will still keep them under 3/4 of an inch.

Well first off I don't concider a 223 a barrel burner. I get the info from shooters of the faster numbers like the 22-250 mainly and from the barrel manufacturers that I'm on a friend basis with. They analyze other barrel manufacturers barrels as to the type of steel used and especially what is alloyed in that steel to make them machine easier and better. They say that the Savage steel is softer. It does appear so with the fast burners and the people that shoot them a lot like prairie dog shooters and competition shooters. Back to the 223 I was told that my 7 twist Colt HBAR should expect to see 6000 rounds if shot and taken care of properly.

I own Savages, but all them have aftermarket barrels on them. Good number of my friends own them in original form but they are just once a year deer hunters in calibers more appropriate for that type hunting and those calibers usually aren't noted as barrel burners.

I have to go along with several of the posters...BUT ONLY ON INDIVIDUAL POINTS...some of the "stuff" is just WAY beyond belief...

One...the barrel steel ISN'T "SOFT". Were that krap came from who knows...there are only a few steel mills around making steel in very big batches and the cost factors make it ludicrous to think someone would order a mix that would produce "soft" steel for barrel making just to save a penny on the mix properties. Besides WHO WAS IT that actually paid the money to have some "Savage" barrels analized for wear characteristics compared to what Rem or Win or any other rifle makers barrels...you gotta get real with the whizzing on the leg stuff.

I've used quite a few takeoff Savage barrels to rechambered to 22-243, 22-250, 6mm-284 and shot a WHOLE lot of 7 RM and 300 WM and totally jacked 30-06 loads and they all lasted as long as other barrels considering the fact of the higher the intensity of the cartridge the shorter the life expectancy of the barrel...ANY BARREL...those rechambered barrels had the number of rounds documented until the accuracy fell off and were replaced or just put aside for other projects...NOT some number picked out at random to try to prove some point.

By the way HOW DO YOU KNOW, Col Townsend W. "Never shot a modern Savage", Rub Line" The Savage came out 3 years before his death, but it was being develope back prior to 1956. Are you his autobiographer? Maybe he did, maybe he didn't but what does that have to do with anything?

I've been building and shooting Savage rifles since 1960 and they first came out around 1958. If you get persnickity about the nut, DON'T USE ONE...the barrel can be set up no different than for any other bolt action...and other brands of bolt actions can use a nut if so desired...I have Ruger, Rem, and Savage switch barreled rifles WITH AND WITHOUT a nut...they all shoot very well.

I also have large cal Savage rifles...416 Taylor and 375 H&H, but I sure the he** won't use one for a DG rifle. They are OK for large non-dangerous game as long as you understand that getting one to feed with a large heavy bullet out front can be a total PITA. Stove pipes, missed feeds, mag strips are common and I've tried many ways short of a solid mag box or clip to get some of the rifle to feed even moderately well. You just have to learn how YOUR rifle feeds best and practice.

Hey, I think it's a cool color...just like the othe bright yellow, orange, pink, green stocks I've seen in the past few years on several different rifle brands. I would buy one if not for the fact I already have a 9.3x62 and I would rather have a 26" bbl. But it's a simple matter to swap barrels around...and SOMEBODY would take the short barrel off my hands in a quick hurry.

HUMMMM That's a very good idea....PN #18389 you say?

At least that style of clip feeds better and more positive than the blind box mags and it doesn't have to be converted to the longer 375 H&H box mag, then futz around getting it to feed.

If that color bunches up your shorts, or the barrel nut, or just the rifle in toto...I say again DON'T BUY ONE...EVERYONE will be the happier for that fact.

Luck

Barrel makers don't get barrel steel that the steel mills decide to give them. They order a specific alloy. Sounds like you know nothing about barrel steels or machining of them.

I'm not talking soft as in brass or lead by the way.

You are correct in that Savages feed lousy especially the blind magazine ones.

On the barrel nut I feel it's "one" of the reasons most Savages shoot so accurately. I feel that nut tensions the barrel differently. Savage has cleaned up the appearence of that nut pretty much. Savage is a great system for the home gunsmith too. All you need is the barrel, the wrench, and a set of chamber gauges. Can't get much easier then that.

+10, I read the post of the guy who rips off extractors, carries spares but STILL SHOOTS A SAVAGE. Rather like leaving your wife to marry your Mother-in-Law. Guess I question his veracity as we have at least 10 Savage long range rifles in our club set up for cartridges a lot hotter than his P-dog poppers. 6.5X 284, 300 RUM, 338 Lapua, 338 RUM all built on the right bolt left port solid bottom single shot short action.
No, genius, you can't extract a loaded 338 RUM but the empties come out just fine. When you're 1000-2000 yard gong shooting, loaded rounds almost never need to come out and, if so, the bolt release makes it easy.
I know if I had a rifle that tore off extractors I would not live with it. Come to think of it I did, A 700 Classic 300 H&H that was redone to 244 H&H. Destroyed the little spring steel factory extractor several times.
Has a SAKO one installed.... poof... no more problems. Come to think of it the factory Savage extractor is a SAKO look alike.... Must be why it's so bad. LOL.
Again not a single documented failure of a Savage to extract in the field, just teats over the back fence.
Of course if you handload your 223 to 80,000 PSI bad things could happen........

Guys who say that Savages don't feed well, you may be behind the times. The newer Center Feed magazines are much much better. Most of mine are the staggered feed, and they feed like crap! But, I built a 458 Win Mag for my cousin on a former 300 Win Mag, center feed. What a difference! Much smoother bolt travel, and perfect feeding. I can't say anything bad about the rifle. The blue was pretty, and I like the recoil pad better than the Limbsaver I put on mine.

Oh, that orange stock is ugly! I bet my kids would like it, though.

Looks like a cool setup. If you decide down the line you don't like the stock color just have it dipped, I have a buddy that does hydro dipping (I think that's what it's called) can put just about any type of finish on any gun. I just saw a pink snakeskin finish he did for somebody, crazy stuff.

Red

Gosh! Something else I gotta 'fess-up to when I next go to Confession.

That stock is SO ugly that I really like it enough to buy one! (Maybe it will teach some of my fancy walnut-stocked rifles some humility....)

At least it will be hard to misplace around deer camp......