otnot
10-21-2021, 07:16 PM
Bob Greenleaf (retired Savage engineer and long time benchrest shooter) did similar testing back in the day when Savage first came up with the 3-screw idea. Long story short is he found the middle screw did nothing to improve accuracy, and in fact tended to make the gun more fickle when it came to screw torque. He provided his detailed results to Savage, but they opted to stick with the idea as it was something they could brag about in their marketing even if it offered no benefit. Bob's advice was just to ditch the middle screw and call it good.
That's funny you mentioned that because that was going to be my next test But that is going to have to wait until after my throat reamer arrives. I received some 90 gr. SMK the other day and it looks like I'm going to have to ream out .064 to be able to have an OAL of 2.555 and an ogive of1.970. I'm curious to see if the 80 gr. SMK will still preform with that much jump.
That's funny you mentioned that because that was going to be my next test But that is going to have to wait until after my throat reamer arrives. I received some 90 gr. SMK the other day and it looks like I'm going to have to ream out .064 to be able to have an OAL of 2.555 and an ogive of1.970. I'm curious to see if the 80 gr. SMK will still preform with that much jump.