Just completed putting together my first Savage build from parts. It's been over a year of slowing gathering parts to pull this together. Was originally going to build a .338-06 on the action as I had an elk hunt in CO this past fall. Budget scrapped that and I took my .308. Went with the 25-06 because it's a good multi purpose caliber and fills a nice "need" in my safe.

Consists of:
116 action
112J barrel in 25-06 Ackley
NSS nut and lug
112 stock

Not pictured is the EGW picatinny base and Seekins Precision 1" rings. Those will hold the VX-3 4.5-14CDS that is currently on my .308. .308 is going to get the VX-3 1.75-6 put back on it.

I wanted a learning experience and I got it. Next step is to do a bunch of fire forming and then load development. We'll see how it shoots and hopefully have a multi-purpose gun that I can shoot some of the local steel silhouette matches this summer as well as a bean field gun for a couple of sits that I have on my deer hunting property.