Budget 22-250 - Page 2

Rex Rugged · February 26, 2024, 04:17 PM

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.

Pumpkin · February 26, 2024, 04:40 PM

“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.”
Maybe someone already did?

Rex Rugged · February 26, 2024, 04:48 PM

Touche

Pumpkin · February 26, 2024, 05:18 PM

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.

1972RedNeck · February 27, 2024, 11:09 AM

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.

taylorce1 · February 27, 2024, 12:16 PM

I bet you'll be okay. The stock is the worst part of those rifles.

1972RedNeck · March 16, 2024, 09:41 PM

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.

February 27, 2024, 12:16 PM	#31
taylorce1 Senior Member Join Date: November 18, 2005 Location: On the Santa Fe Trail Posts: 8,250	I bet you'll be okay. The stock is the worst part of those rifles. __________________ NRA Life Member

February 26, 2024, 04:17 PM	#26
Rex Rugged Member Join Date: November 22, 2023 Posts: 35	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.

February 26, 2024, 04:40 PM	#27
Pumpkin Senior Member Join Date: October 18, 2020 Location: Seguin Texas Posts: 433	“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.” Maybe someone already did?

February 26, 2024, 04:48 PM	#28
Rex Rugged Member Join Date: November 22, 2023 Posts: 35	Touche

February 26, 2024, 05:18 PM	#29
Pumpkin Senior Member Join Date: October 18, 2020 Location: Seguin Texas Posts: 433	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.

February 27, 2024, 11:09 AM	#30
1972RedNeck Senior Member Join Date: December 8, 2015 Posts: 203	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.

March 16, 2024, 09:41 PM	#32
1972RedNeck Senior Member Join Date: December 8, 2015 Posts: 203	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.