Well I took her to the range today!

Lots of guys at school who are on the shooting team are moving back home for the summer so we had a group meet, and another buddy who already has his degree came along too.

Set up at 50yds to get onto paper.
1st shot - High and to the left. Adjusted.
2nd shot - Low and to the right. Adjusted.
3rd shot - On target.
4th & 5th to verify - Yep, good to go!

3-shot group @ 50yds:

Included my thumbnail in the picture for reference. That's still sub-1/2MOA, even with accounting for the short range.


Handed it to my friend Colin, he shot one round. He handed it to my friend Landon, who shot one round.
Left and right shots, respectively:



Pushed the target to 100, took a couple more shots to adjust the zero. Here's the best 5-shot group I got at 100:


Pushed the target to 200. Each shot, my spotter was giving me feedback that didn't match up with what I felt in my gut about where the shot went. Both my spotter and the RSO were telling me that I was shooting like 3 feet high, but it just felt wrong. So after four rounds, I decided to not waste any more ammo without understanding what my rounds were actually doing downrange. Decided to just go look at the target with my eyeballs. When I got to my target, I found four holes in the kill zone. Fairly spread out (about 6 or 7 inches), but clearly on target.

Out-of-the-box performance had me downright boggled. It showed both accuracy and precision when it got handed around, shooting dead-on for three different shooters on three consecutive shots. At 100yds, it still grouped very well (I attribute the spread to error on my part). Then, at the 200yd line, I still got 4 out of 4 rounds on target in the kill zone, even with bad feedback. There were many things learned today, but the one thing that stood out the most was that if the shooter does their part, this Savage 10FCP will deliver.

Ammo fired included:
- S&B 180gr FMJs (People look down on it because it's cheap ammo but those rounds performed very well.)
- S&B 147gr FMJs (Flew even higher than expected! lol)
- Federal 180gr FMJs (Did great)
- Hornady 168gr AMax (Didn't meet expectations. Performed well, but not at the levels I'm used to with AMAX bullets.)
All performed well, even the S&B's, but the Federals actually performed best. I'll be starting to develop handloads soon.

I cannot sufficiently express how pleased I am with this rifle. Right out of the gate, it shot beautifully. I need to figure some things out as a shooter in order to continue getting better with this rifle, but it put my rounds exactly where it was told to put them, and I can't ask for more because that's exactly what a great rifle does. Going into it, I wasn't entirely sure about how it would perform - yeah, sure I knew it could be made into a nice rifle, but I wasn't sure how nice it would be right away.

Well, suffice it to say that after today's session, I am now a Savage believer.