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My new Prairie Dog Rig
07 August 2009, 07:59
Doctor DMy new Prairie Dog Rig
Last fall my wife bought a used Savage Model 12 .223 at a pawn shop for me. Gotta love a wife like that. I think I'll keep her.
Anyway, the trigger was awful so I fixed it with a Timney. It now breaks at 12 ounces with no creep or overtravel.
I despised the tupperware stock so I replaced it with a Boyd's thumbhole varminter. It came grey/black. I stained it with Brownells military stock stain.
I was loosing the sight picture on recoil so I added lead shot under the barrel channel and action. It now weighs 15 lbs and doesn't move under recoil. I had my gunsmith glass bed the action.
I mounted a cheapie Eagle Eye 6-24 x 56 mildot scope I had laying around.
I tried 4 different 40 grain bullets with 5 powders and finally settled on Nosler Ballistic Tips over 25 grains of Reloader 10X. They chrono at an average of 3,797 fps.
100 yard 5 shot group
Next I moved out to 300 yards and fired 10 shots. The wind got three of them.
Not to bad for a grand total of under $700.
My dad told me once that if you're gonna kill a rattler with a chainsaw, use the top of the bar.
You definitely have the accuracy thingie under control...
Good shooting!
And, I LOVE 12 ounce triggers....
07 August 2009, 17:37
swampshooterGood shooting and a good shooting rifle. I'm never that lucky, that level of accuracy always costs me three times that much. Love the stock too, looks good.
velocity is like a new car, always losing value.
BC is like diamonds, holding value forever.
07 August 2009, 23:56
rcamugliaAwesome shooting! What weight bullet in a .223 goes 3700fps?!
08 August 2009, 08:38
KT29I've also had very good accuracy out of my Model 12 .223. Yours looks like a keeper also. Congrats.
10 August 2009, 04:59
Fitchquote:
Originally posted by Doctor D:
Last fall my wife bought a used Savage Model 12 .223 at a pawn shop for me. Gotta love a wife like that. I think I'll keep her.
Anyway, the trigger was awful so I fixed it with a Timney. It now breaks at 12 ounces with no creep or overtravel.
I despised the tupperware stock so I replaced it with a Boyd's thumbhole varminter. It came grey/black. I stained it with Brownells military stock stain.
I was loosing the sight picture on recoil so I added lead shot under the barrel channel and action. It now weighs 15 lbs and doesn't move under recoil. I had my gunsmith glass bed the action.
I mounted a cheapie Eagle Eye 6-24 x 56 mildot scope I had laying around.
I tried 4 different 40 grain bullets with 5 powders and finally settled on Nosler Ballistic Tips over 25 grains of Reloader 10X. They chrono at an average of 3,797 fps.
100 yard 5 shot group
Next I moved out to 300 yards and fired 10 shots. The wind got three of them.
Not to bad for a grand total of under $700.
Good shooting.
I love the 40g Nosler BT pushed by 28.0g of AA2460. They chrono @ 3685 +/- 10 fps and turn ground hog innerds to jello. DRT!
You are going to have some serious fun with that rifle.
Well done!
Fitch
11 August 2009, 02:17
ChiefR53Great shooting rig, looks like it and the wife are keepers.
Is the barrel stock. I would expect the standard model 12 to be matte.
Thanks
Larry
11 August 2009, 08:21
Doctor Dquote:
Originally posted by ChiefR53:
Great shooting rig, looks like it and the wife are keepers.
Is the barrel stock. I would expect the standard model 12 to be matte.
Thanks
Larry
Thanks Larry, the Wife has bought about 6 guns over the years. I'll definately be keeping her.
Yep, factory barrel. It is matte. Must be the sun.
My dad told me once that if you're gonna kill a rattler with a chainsaw, use the top of the bar.
29 August 2009, 05:47
mo.shooterSavage has it going on I have a little 204ruger
in a savage and it shoots one raged hole at 100
yds. my buddy has a sub moa. weatherby and can't
beat it never ever.
30 August 2009, 10:11
RonECongradulations, on the wife, the rifle and the shooting!
Quite possibly the first ever target posted where the group was in the middle of the target and not off to one side or high or low.
Odd when someone posts a target to brag about thier group size and quite often the group isn't even on the bull.
Don't ask me what happened, when I left Viet Nam, we were winning.
04 September 2009, 06:07
Tyler KempThat barrel must be aftermarket? Stainless on a blued action? Either way, very nice!
Love shooting precision and long range. Big bores too!
Recent college grad, started a company called MK Machining where I'm developing a bullpup rifle chassis system.
06 September 2009, 03:52
AI22-250My wife didn't buy this one, but I finished doing my first barrel change on my Savage 12FLV... I choose a 28" match Stainless McGowen hand-lapped (1:8 twist)6.5x47mm Lapua. The rifle has a Leupy 6.5x20LR/T w/varmint reticle, Farrel 10moa base with Leupy rings. I added a tact. bolt handle and shortened the spring on the Accutrigger for a solid 1 1/2 lbs. The Choate stock isn't anywhere a beautiful as yours, but it's stable and comfortable.... I've broken in the barrel with 50 rounds (ouch on the cost of Lapua brass), reloading data compliments of Walt Berger, thanks. Now all I need is a good trip to the West Desert for some long range coyotes.
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26 September 2009, 10:26
homebrewerNice to see a left-handed gun--
any left-handed gun...
13 October 2009, 12:24
N E 450 No2That is a VERY GOOD 300 yard group.
Prairie Dogs, be afraid, be very afraid.....
DOUBLE RIFLE SHOOTERS SOCIETY
14 October 2009, 04:20
seafire2Now both the wife and the rifle are keepers..
someone else's wife probably went to the same pawn shop and hocked it in the first place..
