As I have no experience with the 210, 212, or the 220, I would recommend you do a internet wide search titled "reviews of savage 212 or 220 slug guns" or worded similarly. I am also extreamly interested in buying a Savage 212 with accutrigger, as the new 12ga A-bolt is a little pricey and I already have a first run A-Bolt I bought for half the present asking price.
If money were not a issue I would buy the A-Bolt hands down. It is with out a doubt the finest production slug gun ever made and I am willing to bet it would be on par with the Tar-hunt. My A-Bolt slug gun is a walnut stocked blued model and I will tell you it simply screams craftsmenship as it's fit and finish is excellent, and it has a easy to adjust trigger. I just might work a few weeks of HD/OT and buy one any way.
I would love to get the synthetic stocked model.
As far as swapping stocks, to my limited knowledge there are no drop in stocks available OTC for any Savage bolt slug gun which means a new stock would require custom work of modifying a stock and that could be quite costly. Remember the Savage has a detachable mag, this fact would most likely IMHO, make swapping stocks a pricey proposition, unless you could get a stock with a blind magazine to work. Considering the Savage already costs $469-$500 W/O optics the cost of getting a stock to fit could easily place you in the same price range as the A-Bolt.
Personally if it were me before i spent any more $$$, I would see first if BH209 worked well in your ML. It works awesome in my Encore. BH209 gave me not only my best ever groups out of my Encore, but it gave me the most important aspect of any rifle, CONSISTANTCY!
As I own a Savage 10ML-II smokeless ML, and a Encore 209x50 ML using BH209, are both more accurate than any OTC slug gun and in the case of my 10ML-II that has a effective range that is at least 100yrds beyond any production slug gun, the only reason I still hunt with my slug guns is I simply can not bring myself to let them collect dust in my safe. The fact I still have several 100 12ga sabot slugs might also have something to do with why I still hunt with them.
Hope this was helpful,
Arthur.
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