Quote Originally Posted by gbflyer View Post
Just had a good chat with the fine folks at McMillan. They have given up inlets for Savage. At the end they were requiring customers to send them their barreled action because of all the changes. He said there is a desire for a real stock for their new ultralight whatever model they have now with the carbon wrapped barrel. They looked into it but after speaking with Savage engineers they have 14 changes, all undocumented, to that rifle alone. So, there won’t be a stock for that rifle other than the factory noodle at least from the folks in AZ.
I've never ben a very big fan of McMillan stocks. Their fiberglass stocks always felt cheap, and their paint jobs look like a 3rd grade art class painted them. Manners makes a much better stock, IMO.

I believe the Savage upper management team is ruining the Savage brand by making all the unwanted / unnecessary changes to the 10 / 110 series. They seem to be trying to keep making changes in order to stop consumer's from being able to modify or assemble their own rifles based on a Savage action.
It will end up costing Savage a lot of future sales in the process.


Quote Originally Posted by geneackley View Post
I have concluded that one needs to forget the Savage footprint for anything that isn't a factory produced rifle made by Savage!!!! Period. Life is easier that way.
I wouldn't say that. I've got 8 or 9 Savage based rifles in my safes, as well as have assembled close to a dozen more for friend's and family over the years. While the Aftermarket doesn't support Savage rifles as good as the Remington 700, there are still plenty of choices that will suit the majority of shooter's.
I've got several Savage semi-custom builds that shoot as good if not better than my Custom action builds that cost 2-3 times as much. They just don't look as good.