I want to get the wife into shooting more and shooting more comfortably.
The rules were as follows
1. Caliber .308 because I have dies, bullets, primers, powders and several other firearms in this caliber.
2. Muzzle brake and weight. She's not terribly recoil sensitive but if it pushes too hard at the range I won't get 5 rounds out of her before she's done.
3. Nice trigger. Why buy another weapon with a crappy trigger?
4. It would be nice if it weren't too expensive.
We picked up a Savage 10FPk in .308 with the accutrigger and a brake for $719, a set of leupold rings and bases and put on her Nikon Prostaff 3-9x40 and slapped on a Winchester bipod from Wal mart.
Here is what she said about it.
As a follow up.
We went to the range and shot the Savage for the first time. The trigger pull on this rifle is beautiful, in fact that is what finally sold us on this rifle. I was looking at an FN and the HOWA precision rifles when we were narrowing it all down and the Savage had a better trigger and a muzzle brake and neither of the other two rifles had these features. The FN was $200 more and had a hogue stock, and the Howa was $200 less and had some other sort of precision stock.
Rings are Leupold STD Medium Height. Screws Loc tite'd in.
Scope is her old Nikon Prostaff 3-9x40
The Winchester bipod is excellent for the money. Identical design to the Harris bipods for half the price, the only noticable difference being that the springs are lighter.
The Ammo used for break in and getting on paper was 147gr german DAG surplus, once on paper and sufficiently close to zero I stepped it out to 100. I Switched to the Georgia arms "canned heat" 168gr SMK. Group size stabilized at a little over 1" at 100 yds with a bit of noticable vertical stringing in both my groups and Katy's groups, both of us stringing up and to the right.
The barrel is free floated from the factory, and has 2 forward sling mounts. The recoil pad is supple and very pliable helping to mitigate what recoil can make it past the brake and weight of the gun itself.
If I were posed with the choice of buying this weapon again, I'd do it over again all day long, it was the perfect fit for what I wanted to accomplish.
I must admit though, I'd like to see how this thing could perform bedded in a better stock with better glass with actual match grade ammunition.
The 10 FPK is available in both McMilian an Choate stocks from the factory for additional money, and for my money I'd go McMillan but I want to customize it to fit Katy, as this is her rifle.
The rules were as follows
1. Caliber .308 because I have dies, bullets, primers, powders and several other firearms in this caliber.
2. Muzzle brake and weight. She's not terribly recoil sensitive but if it pushes too hard at the range I won't get 5 rounds out of her before she's done.
3. Nice trigger. Why buy another weapon with a crappy trigger?
4. It would be nice if it weren't too expensive.
We picked up a Savage 10FPk in .308 with the accutrigger and a brake for $719, a set of leupold rings and bases and put on her Nikon Prostaff 3-9x40 and slapped on a Winchester bipod from Wal mart.
Here is what she said about it.
mrsgoodburbon said:
As a follow up.
We went to the range and shot the Savage for the first time. The trigger pull on this rifle is beautiful, in fact that is what finally sold us on this rifle. I was looking at an FN and the HOWA precision rifles when we were narrowing it all down and the Savage had a better trigger and a muzzle brake and neither of the other two rifles had these features. The FN was $200 more and had a hogue stock, and the Howa was $200 less and had some other sort of precision stock.
Rings are Leupold STD Medium Height. Screws Loc tite'd in.
Scope is her old Nikon Prostaff 3-9x40
The Winchester bipod is excellent for the money. Identical design to the Harris bipods for half the price, the only noticable difference being that the springs are lighter.
The Ammo used for break in and getting on paper was 147gr german DAG surplus, once on paper and sufficiently close to zero I stepped it out to 100. I Switched to the Georgia arms "canned heat" 168gr SMK. Group size stabilized at a little over 1" at 100 yds with a bit of noticable vertical stringing in both my groups and Katy's groups, both of us stringing up and to the right.
The barrel is free floated from the factory, and has 2 forward sling mounts. The recoil pad is supple and very pliable helping to mitigate what recoil can make it past the brake and weight of the gun itself.
If I were posed with the choice of buying this weapon again, I'd do it over again all day long, it was the perfect fit for what I wanted to accomplish.
I must admit though, I'd like to see how this thing could perform bedded in a better stock with better glass with actual match grade ammunition.
The 10 FPK is available in both McMilian an Choate stocks from the factory for additional money, and for my money I'd go McMillan but I want to customize it to fit Katy, as this is her rifle.
