Torque Tuning a Savage Action, Does it really work?

[Texas10]

Thanks for asking, RH. This is a three shot group at 300 yds with my 6.5 CM. The dot is one inch, the group measures .19 moa. The load is a 140 SMK over H4350 and 210M primer in Hornaday brass. This load shoots very well both at 100 yds and 700, the furthest I've shot it so far.

The action is from a cheap model 12FV. The barrel a new 24 inch X-caliber, 8 twist. The stock is a factory Savage BVSS bedded and the scope a very inexpensive SWIFT 8-36x50 which does not have sufficient elevation for shooting 1000 yds even with a 20 moa base.

I shot my first for score match at 100 yds with this combo and scored 242 out of 250 and 6 X's. At distance it hammers all day long. One of the first things I did after initially developing the load was to torque tune the action screws, then proceed with fine tuning the load.

If you like, I can post pics of the targets shot in competition too.