What's your take on Savage firearms? I've never owned one or shot one. They seem to be priced around Ruger's. What's the quality and are they good shooters?

In the 80's and 90's the Savages were ugly and heavy but dang did they shoot well! The new ones I can't speak to but we sold lots of them 30 years ago.

Have bought many. Upper styles. Darn good shooters out of the box.

Osky

IMO. Very similar. Not really much difference between the two brands. Both are capable of shooting quite well

I got a savage axis and a ruger American in .243. i'll give the ruger the edge due to a better trigger. bith shoot good.

Cheap as heck and they shoot better than I can take advantage of. I think their style sucks, but I still own a couple. Good working gun

They shoot well. Not a fan of the factory magazines.

My uncle is a metallurgist and tests a lot of Savage's parts and components. His take is they have higher tolerances and better quality material than most other firearms manufacturers that contract to his company.

They are not pretty but certainly have a reputation of being the best shooting production line rifles out of the box. I have a 110C chambered in .243 and it shoots like a champ. All factory loads from 80 grain to 120 grain shoot the same out of it.

I think most of them shoot great, they have great barrels, and are hard to beat at their price point. Ive customized some savage axis' that are one hole guns now. I do think the new magazines suck however.

I think the Savage line is the most undervalued gun made in America... I've got a couple and from my muzzle loader to my Wife's Lady Savage . They shoot well and sight in easily.. As you can tell I'm sold on Savage.. I don't think you'll go wrong with that "Walmart" gun !! LOL

Love Savage! Great guns at a great price.

The 12ga and 20ya bolt action from Savage is all the rate around here. Dad got the 12 and I swear when I saw the magazine I looked in the box for the real one, only to find it was the real one.

Yup, my Niece will be buying it and she doesn't have a lot of money. It will be her first rifle and here in PA I figure a .243 would be a good all around rifle for deer and varmints. I'm a Ruger man myself but I have not heard very good things about the quality of the Ruger American. That's about her price range since she will probably want glass also. These Savages keep popping up as I'm looking so I'm giving it some serious consideration. We will have to go shopping and compare them side by side but I need to know what to look at.

Careful now, some people on here get upset if you shoot further than you can throw a rock.

I had a 22-250, 223, & 30-06 in the cheap Savage models. All three were real tack drivers. IMO, best rifle on the market for the money.

Look at dunhams black Friday sales. Last year they had the axis for 199 plus 100 mail in rebate !!!

I havent messed with the savages, but I really like the mossberg patriots. I got a 308 and 22-250 in them. 308 will shoot three holes touching at 100 yds, and looks really good in the walnut stock. The 22-250 shoots very good too. Shoot well, look good, and are cheap. I cant complain about them. But like I said, I have never messed with the savages, but if your looking for a cheap but quality firearm, check out the mossberg patriots

Lol, i've seen that target before with a different story.

This is just my opinion but if she dont have a lot of money to spend I will go with the Thompson center cumpus. If she had some money to spend I would buy a better quality salvage like a 110. The axis are ok guns but I think the other savages are way better.

The 110 series and its clones probably the best out of the box value currently out there. Style wise I'm not a huge fan but they more than make up for that in the ease of barrel change for the average guy.

I have a little Savage 64 semi auto .22LR and I love it.
As said above, they do have issues with the factory mags but at the price point, how does one complain?
Once I found ammo that mine agreed with it functions flawlessly.

I use nothing but Savage rifles, like someone said they shoot great right out of the box. I also like the accu triggers on them I can lighten them up myself. I have a 270, 17 hornet and 223 all shoot great even with reloads.

Lol, keep editing

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There are some UNREAL bargains here!!!!!!!!!! Heritage revolver 99 bucks

come on Uncle Finster,cough up a little matchin jingle and get her the 110.or a nice Sako or somethin.

Your original post said you lazer bore sighted it and you showed that pic as your 1" high shots. Then you moved out and shot 2 at 227.
Then you moved to 200 and shot the bullseye.

All ya have to do is read my questions to you and anyone can see you've been editing. You also deleted the post where you claimed they were different targets. That one was a stretch.

I don't like her that much! LOL...

Savage 110 is a great accurate rifle.I own one in 30 06 that has accounted for lots of bears.
Another rifle I really like is the CZ.

How did you make out with your search Fin?Where, how much, what cals available?


Trying to follow here is futile lol.

I bought a niece of mine a 25-06 Ruger 77 for her graduation. Bad move! lol
All my nieces and nephews wanted a gun then! lol

Dutch started to like seeing me come in his shop!

both my boys got the ruger in 308.both did well with them and like them.youngest came home with a lever 30-30 winchester the other day cause he thought we needed one.

I have a savage .17 hmr, brand new it wouldn't extract a spent shell. Contacted the factory and they sent me a replacement extractor, that didn't fix the issue. Contacted them again and they told me to ship it back and they would look. I sent it back and they fixed the issue no questions, I was displeased by their lack of quality (they should have seen this issue on the test fire) but their customer service was fantastic.

Well, she is all worried about recoil. I've let her shoot my .308, 30-30, 30-06 and even a 7.62X39. All of them ended up with whining. I figure a .243 will do the job on bambi at 200 yards which probably will never happen in PA. It will be 100 or under. Also, if she want's to shoot ground hogs or yotes or something like that, a lighter bullet will work out well. For PA, for a girl, it seems like the perfect caliber. As far as looking, I've just been looking online for starters. She will have to go to a gun shop to see how it "fits" and I can get an eye on the craftsmanship. But I want some good ideas in mind first as far as model. I would really like her to get a Model 70, something that she could had down to her kids but at this point, she doesn't have that kind of loot.

Oh yes Finn these little rifles will shoot. IF the person on the other end can !!!!!!!!!

My wife told me to play nice sorry hippee

All very true and you can build off of the 110 models as good or better then the 700s or model 70s

I have a few, they all shoot very well. I did go to help a buddy sight in a package deal axis he had picked up in .223 though and found myself pretty disappointed. This model did not have their accutrigger and the trigger pull was awful. It's hard to shoot anything well with a terrible trigger. The package deal scope also left quite a bit to be desired.

I don't remember what he paid for it all, or what he would have had to come up with to bump up to an accutrigger and a decent scope, but in my opinion it would have been well worth whatever it took.

+1

Don't over look reduced loads, choice bullets, less recoil, and the force stops on target.
With carbide neck sizer dies, long case life = more practice and fun.

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Great shooter 60 years old and still doing it

Judge for yourself...
My Model 110P in .308 Win with hand loads. (Hornady 165gr BT SP)
This rifle is stock - all I did was re torque the stock mount screws

Trappercass there is a way to lighten the trigger pull on those Axis’s I did it to a 243 I used to have. It’s actually on you tube, you take the trigger mechanism apart and cut 1 1/2 coil off the spring. Then put back together, the more you pull that trigger the more lighter it gets.

Since it is for a young person I wouldn't mess with the trigger. If you need it done let a gunsmith do it. I am fine with the 270 I have. If you worked on it and something tragic happened to your young hunter it would be bad.
Never shot one but surprised no one is hollering 6.5, 6.5 . 243 reduced recoil as mentioned before may be the ticket

One good point is the thumb tab safety. I lost my right thumb and shoot right handed so it makes a difference. Hunted for years with 700 bdl.

I shot this buck in October right where I was aiming in the neck with open sights at just over 100 yards. Model 99 made in 1955. It's always shot very true for me. Love it. My go to gun for deer, elk, bear, whatever... It ain't meant to make 500 yard shots, but that has never been my style anyway.

Best cheap factory gun around. Between my father and I we have about dozen late model savages in different callibers. They all shoot really well, a couple of them are lazer beams. The only complaint I've had was a couple we bought last year had really cheap scope mounts we had to replace.

I just bought a Savage Axis in a 22-250. First Savage I ever owned. Looks and feels like it might make a good gun to shoot. Mite put a good scope on it but am kinda leaning on setting it up with night vision or thermal scope for predator calling at nite. But have to win the lottery first.....oh, but then I would have to start buying tickets!!!

There is nothing wrong with the method I said to do it’s completely safe.

If you buy one of the package preboresighted deals make sure to take the scope off and tighten everything up. We have found that many times they are loose.

X2 on this. I love my Savages however the Axis line disappointed me. Not bad guns but certainly not the traditional savage quality. That being said I would take most Savages over any other brand out there

I have a relation who is a ballistics expert for a national ammo manufacturer. They test every model and make out there. Years ago when Savage stepped it up he informed me that they were doing great things with accuracy and quality of steel used. So I started buying.

As a side note they do all sorts of tests on scopes as well including impact testing. Top scope for durability and accuracy is Weaver.

For what it's worth.

Osky

I had got a Savage model 24 of 22lr/410 in the late 80's . It was the first gun I bought and still have it and would not part from it. I have look into the newer ones of the Axis and did not like the way the mag was.It is like my Rem 700 in 22-250 and it did not work for what I wanted.

I have 3 with the Accutrigger. It is very hard for me to buy any thing other than Savage. Bought my first one for my wife in 243 with plans on buying her a better gun when we got married 13 years ago. Put a scope on it, learned to reload and that gun is not going anywhere. Just bought the 308 10-FCP-SR 4 years ago and it is my go to rifle for big game. My 223 is my go to for any coyote hunting. I bought a chassis recently so that the stock would fit my youngest boy. I do not know anyone with a Savage that didn't shoot. Have seen a few that wouldn't group with the scope combo but they shot well after I remounted the scope.

They can be finicky with ammo though. but reloading seems to tighten groups sub MOA all day long.

Have three Savages. Two restocked 110's and a 10LE bull barrel. Love the fully adjustable accuracy-trigger. Never more than one shot needed to kill with any of them yet so they are satisfactory to me.

I have a Savage 110 in .243, a Savage .17mag bullbarrel with accutrigger, a .270wsm with accutrigger, and bought my son a Savage axis 25.06 a cpl years ago. Reasonably priced tack drivers, every one I own is very accurate and not for sale lol.

They've been the only rifle that's held up to the abuse I give them personally. They're economical and I can't say I have much trouble taking care of anything I'd like to expire. I haven't shot a deer in about five years, but I check my .270 every year. It amazes me that I haven't adjusted the scope since 2009. Usually one pattern of four every year and I am satisfied with where it's hitting. Put it to work this year already on a mate coyote on one I had trapped. She's in the freezer. I don't do much rifle shooting anymore besides a lone coyote from time to time, but if I was in the market for a rifle they would be at the top of my list.

absolute tack drivers from the get go but get a trigger job on them first

Being left handed I have about 7 or so. They are all very accurate, less than 1" at 100 yards with most 1/2" or less. Not gonna win any beauty contests unless they are only judging the targets. No idea about the axis models only have 10/110, 11/111 and 12. Love the accutrigger.

Absolutely love them for the money, sure there’s a few things I’m not in love with like the mags but for the money you can’t go wrong

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I own one savage, a .22 and it shoots ok, but I bought this for my Daughter, and then put on a pink ringed leupold 200.00 scope, and a pink and black braided rope sling. She holds 1 inch at 100 yds with all ammo, and the rifle has just the right weight to help with recoil. Only down side is plastic mag but it seems tough enough.

I’ve got 2 Savage model 12 long range precision varminters, one in .223 Remington and the other is a 6 m/m bench rest and they shoot like they have eyes, they are both dual port actions.