Thank you everybody,

I have been watching this forum for a while now and with all of the suggestions and discussions. I decided to upgrade my 22-250. I was shooting a Remington ADL, with Bushnell Banner 6x-18x.

I have now picked up a Savage 12BVSS with a Bushnell Elite 3200 5x-15x.

The icing on the cake is the fact that my soon to be wife bought this rifle for me.

Thank you all for the help.

I can't wait to start shooting it.

Want to sell the Remington ?

Hollywood

If its anything like mine you're gonna like it a lot!Had a simple $35 skim bed job done on mine and lowered the accutrigger to 1 1/2# and it shot like a house a fire right from the start.They are truly well worth the money and then some.

woods

graylake, Make sure and give us a range report. don't forget k. I want one of these for my next rifle. Some people don't have a clue I was in the big sporting goods store near me and noticed for the first time they sell savage. I said oh I didn't know you guys sold savage, he kinda looks at me crusty and says well yeahh. I asked to look at the BVSS, meanwhile someone else walks up and wonders what rifle I have in my hand. I say a savage BVSS the most accurate out of the box shooters there is and how they can put customs to shame. the idiot behind counter goes off on how crappy they are and that he saw one blow up once, and that remington is way more accurate etc. I said well that is not what everyone else has to say, I said just get online and see for yourself, he said the only people who like savages must be like 80yrs old or something. Makes me want to buy one and show this guys remington a thing or two

I have two BVSS 223s, one a s/shot the other a repeater. The repeater has been trued and new machined recoil lug. It is definitely very accurate. I have nick named it "Laser..by Savage". My newest BVSS-S is headed my way on the brown truck, a s/shot 308. Going to have a shoot out with it and my LE1 308 FP.

Ya I can't wait til I get to the range.

I am right in the middle of harvest right now, so the range will have to wait. That sucks, as I had a coyote come in to the pasture below the barn yesterday morning while I was milking. And the only gun that was sighted in was the 30-06. So I ended up shooting the coyote with Federal High Energy 180gr. TBBC. I think it was a touch too much gun and bullet for such prey.

Once the rifle is sighted in the coyotes are in serious trouble.

I have already sold the remington. sorry

The remington was a good rifle. On the conservative side that rifle has shot around 1000 coyotes over the 25+ year life span.

Thanks again

I've got a M12 bvss 22-250 with a weaver grand slam 6-20 on it. It's a one hole rifle if I do my part. You can't go wrong with one.

The Savage 112BVSS does indeed seem to be an accurate rifle. What does it weigh? It appears to be awfully heavy. I don't know that I'd want to lug it around the woodchuck fields.
I guess you don't get it all in a single rifle. If you want accuracy that seems to be the baby. Best wishes.

Cal - Montreal

They weigh in right at 10# Cal,with the lighter synthetic stock they go 8 3/4#, although I would have to have an aftermarket synthetic like Stockade or McMillian.I suppose mine with the 4x16 Elite and mounts would probably go a little over 11# the way it sits.They do offer superb almost unbelievable accuracy and the ones with the new accu-trigger are pretty much ready right out of the box.

woods

I just started breaking in a new 12BVSS in .308 with accutrigger, It looks like its going to be a good one, .5 group on a windy day, going to start testing different loads on my next days off.

I have a safe full of Remington, Sako's, Ruger's, Winchesters, you name it. However it seems that when I pull one out it is always one of my Savages. Just recently bought a 12FVSS 22-250 and at 100 yards one ragged hole, out of the box. Put a Weaver Grand Slam, 6x20x40 fine cross hairs with teeny teeny dot, this gun shoots better than I am capable of shooting...

[ 09-30-2003, 00:12: Message edited by: Chief4 ]

Has anyone else had problems with the Accu-Trigger? I've found that the rough drag of that little stainless trigger insert sliding against the side of the slot in the trigger as the slack is taken up will usually dislodge the sear unless it's well oiled, and oil doesn't keep it working long. I've got automotive grease on it now. Works fine with that in place. Yesterday several times the trigger locked up solidly when I chambered a cartridge and closed the bolt. Safety wasn't on. Recocking the bolt released the trigger. I haven't touched the adjustment of the trigger, which comes from the factory set at minimum pull and requires the action to be removed from the stock to adjust it. (That stinks.) I think I'm going to have to contact Savage about a warranty repair. Otherwise, it's a very nice rifle, and it does shoot very well.

Just to clarify that last post, it's not the sear that has to be oiled or greased. It's the roughly finished sides of the safety insert in the trigger and the slot in the trigger that drag, scrape and vibrate the sear loose. I could probably fix that by setting the trigger pull up, but I want to keep the pull as light as possible.

I think the Accu-Trigger is a good idea that has problems in its execution.

[ 09-30-2003, 07:06: Message edited by: NotRicochet ]

Sounds like a little roughness that needs to be smoothed off the safety insert somewhere.I have had no problems with mine and know of no-one else using one that has either.Maybe take it to your smith and have him touch it up.My only complaint is that I wish it would go on down to a pound or a little less for target work.Taking the action out of the stock is about 60 seconds and 2 allen screws to remove,not a hard or unpleasant job at all.Mine has a good bit of clearance all around the trigger slot and never touches or scrapes anywhere,instead it "free floats" in the slot with no contact.

woods

Simply remove the blade from the middle of the trigger and toss it. It's very easy to remove and you don't even have to take the trigger apart.
Better yet, get a Rifle Basix trigger and go play benchrest.
Mad`

I think I like that last suggestion best. Thanks, guys!

22-250, BlackStar treatment, Farrel base, Burris extra low rings,6.5 - 20 Conquest w/ fine (#21) xhair. Shoots great.

Do have a problem with next to last round feeding from the magazine. All other founds feed fine. Ideas?