Many people think that a Savage is a remington , and they try to do the things that work in a remingtion action, the fact is a Savage is not a remington action, and the two differ as much as night and day. With that said lets consider a savage action for our discusion. Truing an action only makes things straight. Making things straight will affect how the bolt slides in the action, and how the scope bases fit, and that is it. This is what you get from most gunsmiths. Yes as mentioned the Savage floating bolt head design takes up the assoated problems with lug contact. The true magic is in timming, most benchrest shooters know this well, but it is sad most gunsmiths dont understand what it is. Proper timming ensures proper ignigtion. Eratic ignigtion can cause all types of problems, such as cold fires that cause unexplained shots, to rounds not going off, to inconsistant groups.


Now with that said, with truing the action you will not see any benifit with accuracy, you may feel the bolt move a bit more freely. Trimming is where accuracy is involved, and it is at the point where most shooters will not notice the diference. To start the gun out of box shoots better than most shooters can handel, but when a shooter gets to the point, that they are at the accuracy end point of that rifle, then timming is where the gain come is.