I have a Savage Model 16 stainless/syn in .223.
Can anyone tell me the difference between a 16 and a 116.

Also, I am experiencing some feeding problems with the gun; not all the time. Sometimes it just fails to chamber the cartridge straight into the chamber. I think a deeper seating depth might cure that. Sometimes it is prematurely releases a cartridge after ejecting one and then picks up a second one trying to chamber two at once. Anyone know a fix for this?

Thanks, Merg Sorry I should have made two posts. Just noticed.

M1, I am not an expert on Savage rifles but as far as I know the 116 has a longer action length than the 16.

Thats right. The 16 is a short action & the 116 is a long action.

Any of the rifles built on the Savage 10 action (this includes rifles like the 14 and 16, etc.) are short actions, and ones built on the 110 actions are long actions. The actions are somewhat generic, with detail variations over the years due to improvements.

I have used the Savage short actions as project rifles over the past 7 years; with a friend who is a master machinist guaging and building on the actions. I wouldn't begin know how to blueprint an action, but my friend says the Savage actions are the only ones he's seen which are built to good enough tolerances that they would benefit very little from blueprinting. Over the past decade, he's built well ove a dozen Savage target rifles for myself, himself, and my friendsl; and it is his favorite action for building target rifles.

Mine tend to use L/W barrels chambered in .260 Rem and McMillan Tactical stocks, and are used for F Class competition, most often at 1000yd.

The latest vesions, with the accutrigger and accustock, detachable magazine, and prettied up barrel nut, are the best Savages I've seen to date. Prices are not as attractive as they once were, but that's true all around.

I will take a Savage over most others, but also own Remington 700's, Winchester 70's and '94's, and Ruger KM77VT's. I maintain a Savage model 112 chambered in .308 for use as a newbie starter/loaner rifle for 1000yd F Class.

I am also part of an experiment that uses a homemade computer printed V-type target at 200yd to shoot something fairly similar to F Class. I use a Rem700 .223 on a bipod, only very slightly tweaked, for that.

Jar