LOVE my new Savage!

[wraithen]

Dan-o, if you don't mind my asking, which 111 package did you go with? I was looking and I'd rather they sell the inexpensive ones without the scope. Just seems that unless you want a stevens or axis, you gotta pay for a scope and I want a nikon, just not a bdc.

I got the combo with the BDC.........     

I'm no optics expert, but the guy behind the counter that i trust said it was a pretty good scope.   I know it works for me.........       

The glass looks really clear to me, and I sure could settle the cross hairs nicely, so it works for me.

What scope do you like (in case I get an unexpected inheritance)?

I dig nikons a lot. I just prefer the plain jane nikoplex or mildot setups. I play with my rounds too much for a dedicated bdc to work.

[Dan-o]

Dan-o, if you don't mind my asking, which 111 package did you go with? I was looking and I'd rather they sell the inexpensive ones without the scope. Just seems that unless you want a stevens or axis, you gotta pay for a scope and I want a nikon, just not a bdc.

I got the combo with the BDC.........     

I'm no optics expert, but the guy behind the counter that i trust said it was a pretty good scope.   I know it works for me.........       

The glass looks really clear to me, and I sure could settle the cross hairs nicely, so it works for me.

What scope do you like (in case I get an unexpected inheritance)?

I dig nikons a lot. I just prefer the plain jane nikoplex or mildot setups. I play with my rounds too much for a dedicated bdc to work.

Yeah, I figured I could get a couple pet loads that the rifle really likes and then just figure the yardage for the various reitcles......   I know it's a poor man's solution, but hey..........       

[FC]

So about lapping........

Is that a process whereby you somehow smooth out he rifling so that it's less "sticky"?

How do you do it, when and why do you do it?

Sort of, you are actually trying to get rid of the fine tool marks left over from machining the barrel and smooth the larger ones. I use jb bore-paste on a nylon brush to accomplish this, it takes quite a while. Come to think of it I had to do this to my SS barreled AR too.

I did it when I got tired of my rifle's accuracy dropping off in 20-30 shots because there was already so much copper fouling.

[wraithen]

Haha, mine gets better with fouling!

[FC]

Haha, mine gets better with fouling!

Mine do too but the first clean, cold-bore shot is right on target. 

[wraithen]

My first cold shot if its clean is a half inch low and left. After that it's on the money. I shoot it waaaay too much when I go to the range to worry about cold bore shots. I'm on the wetside so anything I may encounter will be close enough not to care.

[DoubleJ]

Haha, mine gets better with fouling!

My Savage/Stevens .308 is the same way.  I keep it spotless in the safe but when shooting it to sight it in or taking it hunting, I'll run a 4 round magazine through it as soon as I leave the house and take it out into the field dirty.  Much better groups and accuracy after a few fired round

[DoubleJ]

My first cold shot if its clean is a half inch low and left. After that it's on the money. I shoot it waaaay too much when I go to the range to worry about cold bore shots. I'm on the wetside so anything I may encounter will be close enough not to care.

Also this.  I archery hunt but the boys use the rifle, mostly east side but, we've never worried about cold vs. warm barrel.  Accuracy at 100 yards seems to be within an inch or so between cold and warm barrels.  We tried shooting round after round and we've also tried waiting for a period of time between shots for the barrel to cool, down.  No real difference in accuracy that I can tell and it's not fun to sit there while a barrel cools

[MadHatter]

My first cold shot if its clean is a half inch low and left. After that it's on the money. I shoot it waaaay too much when I go to the range to worry about cold bore shots. I'm on the wetside so anything I may encounter will be close enough not to care.

My Rem 700 .308 is the same way... Although my clean bore is 1/2" high and 1/4" right, but as soon as it is fouled it is right on the money.  Cold bore puts me 1/4" high at 100 though, so I just take it down two clicks for the first shot, then back up after that...

Sent from my sniper hide...

[C-Money]

Congrats on your new rifle Dan-o! Sounds like a shooter!