Time to check the Savage
Sept 26, 2023 19:34:36 GMT -5
Post by reloader22 on Sept 26, 2023 19:34:36 GMT -5
This is getting to be somewhat boring to me and maybe to many others. Nothing left to prove and no real meaningful improvements to post about. One week of ML season. Measured in days for me. As in two days. A weekend. Load a known good shooting combo, check zero and maybe shoot a 3 shot group and go hunt. This is like my 15th year of leaving the gun loaded all off season. Will shoot it in a few weeks and it will hit top of the 2" dot give or take an inch. Never fails.
The great times were when this was always in constant development. In Western NYS we did not have centerfire until 2011. The savage was the ultimate in ruling the woods and getting ahead of the average Joe out there. We made stands and blinds that we never thought of before due to the reach of this gun. We had super tuned rifled slug guns for drives and short range areas. Eventually we just used ML's.....until centerfires were legal.
The hype has died off unless you are building crazy custom guns. Even those guns are minimalized compared to a well put together centerfire that shoots accurately very easy. At least around here in our area.
So, I don't post much anymore on the subject because I don't have anything relevant to share like when this was a frontier.
70 gr H4198, Harv CR sabot, 325 Hornaday .458 FTX, Fed 209A primer. 2,550 fps. 1.5 MOA solid out to 200 Yds. 2" high at 100 yds. 2" low at 200 yds. Point, shoot, kill. With only two days to utilize this, I am usually hunting on a doe tag. Maybe a buck tag leftover from bow.
Great legacy gun and so powerful. Took a few years to tame it into a solid performer thanks to this board and the members who coaxed it along.
The great times were when this was always in constant development. In Western NYS we did not have centerfire until 2011. The savage was the ultimate in ruling the woods and getting ahead of the average Joe out there. We made stands and blinds that we never thought of before due to the reach of this gun. We had super tuned rifled slug guns for drives and short range areas. Eventually we just used ML's.....until centerfires were legal.
The hype has died off unless you are building crazy custom guns. Even those guns are minimalized compared to a well put together centerfire that shoots accurately very easy. At least around here in our area.
So, I don't post much anymore on the subject because I don't have anything relevant to share like when this was a frontier.
70 gr H4198, Harv CR sabot, 325 Hornaday .458 FTX, Fed 209A primer. 2,550 fps. 1.5 MOA solid out to 200 Yds. 2" high at 100 yds. 2" low at 200 yds. Point, shoot, kill. With only two days to utilize this, I am usually hunting on a doe tag. Maybe a buck tag leftover from bow.
Great legacy gun and so powerful. Took a few years to tame it into a solid performer thanks to this board and the members who coaxed it along.