Hi.
I'm curious about his rifle, as the long range shooting thing is upp and comming here in Norway at the moment.
I'm curious about this rifle. any experience is wanted.
Accuracy?......and such?

My thoughts:
why use all that money to tune a good rifle, if you can buy it of the shelf.

At my club we shoot F-Class at 200 yards using a 300 yard reduced target. My Savage 110FP in 223 is highly competitive. We shoot 3 strings of 20 rounds. Once I was dialed in I beieve that I had one string, my last which was a perfect score with about 18 Xs or something like that. My scope could not resolve 22 caliber bullet holes at 200 yards so I had trouble "dialing in". So, the accuracy is there, although not tested at longer ranges. I plan on shooting the gun at a diferent range which goes up to 600 yards, but have not had the chance yet.
Peter.

Have no one tried the 6,5-284, mod. 12 F-class.

I'm not interested if this rifle dont have good accuracy.

The 223 is not what I want to use on 500, 800, and 1200m.

I've tried my 22-250..........

I don't believe that F-Class is shot at 1200 meters! Having said that, I friend of mine did switch out the barrel of his Saveage and installed a 6.5-284. It did shoot very well. In fact on that day he beat me!
Peter.

quote:

Originally posted by Peter:
I don't believe that F-Class is shot at 1200 meters! Having said that, I friend of mine did switch out the barrel of his Saveage and installed a 6.5-284. It did shoot very well. In fact on that day he beat me!
Peter.

Hi.
I know that the F-class is not shot at 1200m.

Please, don't misunderstand me. I appreciate your experiences, but it is that particular rifle I'm interested in. The model is called "F-class" and IS in calibre 6,5-284.
I'm interested in this rifle for shooting at long range. Here in Norway we compete at 500m, but who knows; we might arrange a 800, 1000, or maybe a 1200m competition as well. At least we practise at that ranges, for fun.
I use a 6,5-06 now, but consider to step up my gear. This sort of rifle HAS to deliver sub 1/2 MOA accuracy at 100m (5 shot string). Otherwise it is useless.....

Sorry I misunderstood. Having said that, the rifle you are asking about is rather expensive in my opinion. What I was suggesting is that you buy a "regular" Savage and then buy a match barrel for it in the caliber of your choice.
That is what my friend did.
Peter.

I am familiar with the exact gun you are talking about.I have also talked to the guys on the savage shooting team that use them in competition. They are very capable of sub 1/2' groups at 100m in fact most owners manage to get them in the ones and twos with a good load the gun likes. Only work I've heard of being done would be a skim bed around the pillars or double checking the headspace and setting to your resized brass. Barrels are amazing for factory and quite accurate, accu trigger can be set down to about 8 oz. without any problems. Private message me if you want direction to where they are discussed and used on a regular basis. You are talking about the 12/F and 12F/tr, one comes in 308 and the other in 6.5/284. They use the three pillar action with a target laminated stock and 30" 1.25 heavy barrel. You could also as Peter suggested get a good savage varmint action and barrel it with a Shilen or Lothar Walther barrel and with a rifle basix trigger along with a SSS recoil lug and a decent SSS or stockade stock. Would shoot probably about as well for less $. Only real difference is that the target action is stronger and more rigid with smaller port. I believe you could expect 1/4" performance with either F-Class gun out of the box with only load work. If I can answer any further questions just ask.

Dave

Dave,

I saw one today with the synthetic stock...very nice. How would you rate the synthetic stock VS the laminated one? You could PM me that website too, just went to www.savageshooters.net and found they had moved to a .com address. For two summers I have been competitive with a 308 and home cast bullets in HBR.

Rich
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Knowledge not shared is knowledge lost...

Good experience so far...
6.5-284
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A little under .5" at 100 yds.

BTW, I went to www.savageshooters.com and I would NEVER pay to join a forum.

There is a place, in the heart of Minnesota USA where there are many Norwegians, that sells what you may be looking for:

http://www.eabco.com/savagebarrels.htm


Brooks