Bought this rifle used and started reloading for it. Using Nosler 55gn BT, I measured the chamber for freebore, it's 0.145 over recommended max COL of 2.350. To me that seems extremely excessive. Has anyone else had the same issue? From my experience and gathered conventional wisdom, optimal free bore should be around 0.020.
Is this typical for Savage? I would expect this rifle to shoot sub-moa. So far I've only shot a couple boxes of factory ammo with disappointing results. Not giving up, still just getting to know this rifle but the 0.145 of freebore concerns me.
Any thought or experience would be appreciated.