As simple as the Savage rifle is for the average guy to work on, You could probably get more for your money by just buying an off the rack rifle and doing most of the custom work yourself. It only takes 10-15 minutes to swap out a barrel. While you're waiting for that custom barrel to arrive you could have the action at a smith's shop to be blueprinted so as to get the best out of the new barrel. To be honest, that rifle probably will shoot as good or better than you or I can right out of the box as is.. I have a Model 12 LRPV in .204 Ruger caliber that with zero mods will put 5, 32 gn Vmaxes into 0.140" @ 100 yds. At least that is what it did a couple weeks ago. They usually don't need any custom work to shoot well.
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