Very good to know! How much would it be to change the bottom to metal and buy the matching magazine? Are you thinking about keeping the rifle now!
Printable View
Very good to know! How much would it be to change the bottom to metal and buy the matching magazine? Are you thinking about keeping the rifle now!
The reason I emphasized "metal" in the term bottom metal is because that is the term commonly used when describing the magazine frame/floor plate and trigger guard of a rifle and the bottom "metal" just happens to be plastic on the model 11. I'm well aware that many makers use polymers for certain parts and they are indeed sometimes superior to their metal counterparts (see Ruger's abuse of their polymer mag for their American rifle on their website) The point I was making was that the plastic bottom "metal" on the model 11 looks EXACTLY like the metallic bottom metal found on say the model 10 Precision Carbine and others may want to know that it does in fact differ from what it appears to be. As far as Savage taking care of the issue we all know they have excellent customer service, I just wish that they had better quality control to get the rifle out right the first time.
BoilerUP wrote:
"1:9 will stabilize a tangent ogive match bullet in the 75-77gr range (Hornady 75gr HPBT, Sierra 77gr SMK, Nosler 77gr CC) but will be exceedingly marginal if not outright unusable for a VLD-style secant ogive bullet in the same weight range (75gr A-Max, Berger VLD)."
=================================
I just looked up secant ogive and tangent ogive here:
http://www.accurateshooter.com/balli...ogive-bullets/
Reading the description made my head hurt. I was an English major.
it's a good thing the world wasn't waiting on me to build the first rifle (or outhouse).
Impressive group! Looked at one of these today, for $500 I may give it a shot.
I bought the Model 11 VT in .223 Remington today after I found some Hornady 75gr BTHP at a local store. Mine feeds and ejects fine.
I still have to buy a scope for a .308 and join a local gun club before I get to do any shooting.
Talked with a Sierra tech a while back about the 77gr in a 1-9 Savage. He said to be sure and shoot factory or hand loads at 300 yards +. If it is good at that distance then he said that particular barrel was probably good to go with the 77.