This is my Savage 11VT I recently bought from a friend. About 200 down the tube by the previous owner. I couldn't seem to find a nice walnut stock from Boyds, MicroFit, Richards etc that had a varmint barrel channel cut so I filled the forearm of the stock one with aluminum round bar for support and fiberglassed them in place. I then placed a piece of 1" steel round bar stock into the buttstock and glassed that in place for some weight. I then gave it a paint job starting with trunk paint for texture, then O.D. green and a final amature black camo pattern paint job I did with a brush, please excuse my lack of creative artistic skills. I added Warne rings and base, a Leupold 6-18 x 40 Target scope with tall turrets and a knock off Harris bipod I had in a parts box. The first 5 shots grouped well at about 5 o'clock and after 3 adjustments to the left and up 3 shots later it was in the X ring. I was out of ammo so I'll do another test tomorrow if the weather permits. For a starting load I used my M14 load of 40.2 grains of 4064, CCI primer, 168 grain Sierra MK HPBT in an LC case trimmed to size. After chambering the first few rounds it was a bit hard. I realized they were a bit longer than factory as my loads were setup for my M14 to just hit the lands. Anyways they worked great but I will do a bit more tweaking to get them in a dime size group at 100 yards. The first cloverleaf was OK but I know she will can better.
I'm happy so far and realized how much I missed a scoped HP rifle.