savage 10t no good

[Steve_Temple]

I bought a 10t also thinkinh i would get the 100$ rebate. How could i pass up a 10t for $399! Well after many calls to the rebate center they finally honored the rebate and i did get my $100.00. Best rifle ever under $400. Not to mention with all my gift cards, cabelas points i paid hardly anything

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[87tpita]

So yet again... Cabela's was wrong... another hour on yhe phone with corporate customer care.. they added $100 worth of cabelas points to my card... incompetent at best .. its what it is

[PowellSixO]

So did you get a chance to shoot it over the weekend? Sorry to hear about your troubles with Cabelas. They've been on a down hill slide for a while. I guess that's why Bass Pro is trying to purchase them.

[87tpita]

I didn't get a chance... went Fishing with my boss on Sunday and had to work Saturday... if not this upcoming then 2 weeks ill get it out for sure

[hellbilly]

Hey guys, I'm new to the forum. I purchased a .308 10t from cabelas on Febuary 24th. Got the rifle home, began cleaning and noticed a lot of copper fouling in the rifling from savages test fire at muzzle end. I scrubbed out fouling and noticed major pitting and tool marks. I have not shot rifle. I brought the rifle back to Cabela's and they sent it back to savage. I talked to savage today and the gun is waiting to be test fired. I buy a firearm a year, some cheap some not so cheap. I have never seen pitting and tooling marks like this ever on a new firearm. This is not acceptable to me. Savage does not seem to think this is a big deal. They are concerned with how it shoots. To me, how it shoots is irrelevant. I don't believe a new barrel should be pitted or have excessive tooling marks. Am I nuts for believing this. Any of you fellas that had you're 10t barrel replaced, did you have to struggle with savage to do so. Also, I apologize if I am interrupting anyone's thread. I am new to the forum thing.

[Process_engineer]

My 10T got a lot of copper fouling for the first 200ish rounds. It has gotten a lot better. It shoots sub MOA on hand loads.


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[bearcatrp]

Dam, that sucks. Bought mine last year when there was a rebate. After a few rounds braking it in, then zeroing it, shoots fantastic. Didn't think to inspect real close when I bought it. Tac driver when i'm not twitching. Production barrels aren't perfect but pitting shouldn't be there. Just got the 6.5 cm version so will be looking close at it.

[Process_engineer]

I'd like to see the pitting. Tooling marks are common from what I hear. I assume that's why my fouling was so bad until the bore smoothed out


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[87tpita]

Here we go again... finally have some time to shoot tomorrow... figured I'd check my scope rail to see if i need to bed it... glance down and notice the screws look like toex... weird but i go get my torx bits... sit down and look closer... all the hex heads are stripped... the front one is a few mm higher than the rest and seems to be cross threaded.. unless this rail has 1 hole machined highr than the rest.... 2 of them are so bad i can't even work the screws out.... WTF!

[87tpita]

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[87tpita]

I was able to get 3 of the 4 screws out with a small hammer and some tapping... but the 4th is round.... tried a size bigger torx.. tapped into screw head and it bit perfect... no go.. it must be miss threaded... savages qc seems like a joke to me at this point

[Process_engineer]

What terrible luck. I will say whatever they used for socket head cap screws are ****. They are very soft.


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[Texas10]

Get a left hand twist drill and drill the head off. Most times the drill will bite into the screw and just back it out before it actually drills the head off.

A "must have" tool for FUBAR'd screws.

[bergy24]

All my screws were very tight and slightly stripped and my front screw seemed cross threaded as well. The front screw hole seems not as deep as the others due to the barrel being under it. I couldn't find a wrench that fit perfect but I did get all of them out. ( i was scared I was going to snap them when removing them because they were that tight. ) Try using a soldering gun and place the tip on the screw. The heat may help it some. I ended up removing the EGW rail and installing a DNZ one piece (Game Reaper rail) DNZ makes a great product for the money. I'm just glad my holes weren't drilled off center on the 10T.

[bearcatrp]

That sucks. Savage is getting sloppy on QC. I was sweating when I replaced mine with a 20 MOA rail. Hope I don't have to remove it. Front screw stripped when I put the rail back on but got it tight.

[87tpita]

Back to savage she goes

[Process_engineer]

I personally wouldn't even send it back. I'd drill it out and re-tap the holes to the next size up


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[87tpita]

The threads look fine on the receiver side... probably right though.. may as well swap to torx anyway

[bearcatrp]

I got the 10T 6.5 cm I am debating on sending back for accuracy issues. Getting a little disappointed with savage reading all these little issues that should have been addressed before shipping out. Starting to think I should have waited on a RPR instead of jumping on the 10T 6.5. Unless ou don't need our rifle for awhile, as was suggested, do it yourself or have a good smith take care of it for you. Guess I got lucky getting a near perfect 308. Hope you get it ironed out as the rifle is a great shooter.

[87tpita]

Finally got out today... broke it in then layed down a few groups... on the ground with a bipod that was to tall so wasn't a very comfortable position... she is a tack driver.. last 2 groups of three i shot... put 40 rounds through her intotalhttp://i257.photobucket.com/albums/hh221/87tpita/Mobile%20Uploads/20160507_135106_zpsm3wu817l.jpg (http://s257.photobucket.com/user/87tpita/media/Mobile%20Uploads/20160507_135106_zpsm3wu817l.jpg.html)