February 26, 2024, 04:17 PM | #26 |
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I'm surprised nobody has mention a Savage. You can find them around $300 I have one, a 110 with a bull barrel that shoots lights out. It has a 4-20 Leopold on top of it. Scope cost three times what the rifle did.
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February 26, 2024, 04:40 PM | #27 |
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“I would keep my eye open for a clean Savage 10 or 110. Back in the 80’s I bought two new 110E’s, one 223 the other 22-250. The 22-250 is long gone but that rifle would shoot sub 1/2” 100yd groups all day with Federal 40gr Blitz. They both are thin barrel guns with open sights. I gave the 223 to my Dad for Christmas which is why it’s still around, one of my favorite rifles.”
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February 26, 2024, 04:48 PM | #28 |
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Touche
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February 26, 2024, 05:18 PM | #29 |
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Those old birch stock 110’s are very underrated. I also have a scope on my.223 that cost considerably more than the rifle did when bought new.
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February 27, 2024, 11:09 AM | #30 |
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I put a $250 bid on a Savage Axis with scope on gun broker and got it for $240. I guess we'll see how it does.
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February 27, 2024, 12:16 PM | #31 |
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I bet you'll be okay. The stock is the worst part of those rifles.
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March 16, 2024, 09:41 PM | #32 |
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Got my new to me Savage Axis. Trigger was pretty poor but I clipped 2 coils off the spring and now it's acceptable. Took a box to get it dialed in perfect and then I was busting beer bottles at 250 yards off my pickup flatbed with the cheapest ammo I could find on Ammo Seek.
Overall seems pretty cheap and flimsy, but that's what I expected. The accuracy is superb - better than I expected. I can't see well enough through the Bushnell 3-9x40 to test it on bottles any farther out. Should be deadly on Prairie Dogs out to 400 yards at least. |
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