I've always been a Remington guy and own several model 700's. Over the years, Savages' have come and gone through my hands but none really stuck around for long. I have built a couple of target AR15's and recently wanted a 223, bolt, target rifle. Of course the 700 came to mind first. As I looked around, I saw a lot of positive reviews for late model Savage guns so I started to do a little more research (Thanks Savage Shooters!). After a lot of back and forth, I ended up having the LGS order me the model 12 LRPV, 223, 1 in 9 twist. When all was said and done, the HS Precision stock and the left port feature sold me. I mounted the Weaver 32 power scope in Warne mounts and started out at 100 yards with 10, Federal Gold Medal factory rounds with 69 grain Sierra match bullets. I knew it was going to work out when I fired 5, 2 shot sight in groups and all the groups had both bullets touching. If you put all of the groups one on top of the other, the 10 shot group would have been about 1/2 an inch. The next 5 shot group was fired with a load that I worked out for my AR's: 69 grain, Sierra TMK, 26.0 grains Varget (I know, it's a lot of Varget!) and Remington 7 1/2BR primers. The group below is this load. I think this is a really good start for an out of the box factory gun and I'm looking forward to working up some loads using brass tuned to the gun.