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As an answer about potential accuracy, my son and two range buddies have 0.223 Savage Model 10 FCP-K versions.
They are all 1:9 twists and have a heavy barrel and muzzle brake - Law Enforcement models - all purchased because my original .308 shot so accurately.
My son and one of the buddies also have .308 Savage 10 FCP-K rifles - I have 2. My original Savage now has 6,000 rounds through it and is beginning to show signs of barrel wear. It still shoots in the 0.6s at 100 yards but it is going back to Savage for a new barrel hopefully to restore its original accuracy. I replaced it with a new one to shoot while I wait for it to get a new barrel.
As for the .223 data:
My son's .223 is new and still in the box. He got it after finding that his .308 shot as well as mine.
The two range buddy .223s shoot about the same.
One averages 0.342 for its best 25 hand load recipes.
The other averages 0.360 for its best 25 hand loads.
Both seem to shoot 40 to 55 grain bullets very well and both have incredible accuracy with 52 grain bullets - either SMKs or Berger Targets.
The Savage .308s that I have gathered data for average 0.416, 0.421, 0.548 and 0.568 for their favorite 25 hand load recipes including 150 grain, 168 grain and 175 grain bullet weights.
Between the 5 of us we now have 9 Savages - 5 .308s, 3 .223s and one .22-250.
All of them shot great out of the box without modifications.
The .22-250 is a new model 12 and is barely broken in. It also shoots great - averaging 0.397- but it hasn't had 25 different hand load variations through it yet.
Even though all of these have heavy barrels, there are a number of thin barrel Savages at our range that also shot accurately out of the box but I don't have measured group data for them.
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