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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: MadHatter on February 26, 2013, 03:23:00 PM

Title: Savage 110 BA/LE Info?
Post by: MadHatter on February 26, 2013, 03:23:00 PM: Thinking of picking one up in 338LM. Found one brand new for a good price. Anyone have any experience with them? According to the dealer Savage is making their own chassis for them, but looking at it closely it looks to be made by another company and branded Savage, I just can't put my finger on where I have seen them before. Any ideas who is making their chassis' for them, or is Savage actually in the business of making a very limited number of high end aluminum chassis for the BA series?

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Title: Re: Savage 110 BA/LE Info?
Post by: memilanuk on February 26, 2013, 04:10:22 PM: I was involved in field-testing the prototypes for the 110BA a couple years back... to the best of my knowledge that stock is their design.

Thats not to say that it wasn't influenced by or doesn't borrow heavily from other designs... they may have a sub-contractor making or finishing parts for them (like they do with the laminate stocks or sending out the bolt heads to be hardened) but Savage does have a fairly impressive row of large CNC machining centers on site so its hardly beyond their capability. The main chassis design is reminiscent of the PDC stocks that I've seen around on the 'Net. The model I have uses that 'Accu-Wedge' thingy, which works fine but makes life interesting if you ever go to rebarrel or change stocks as it required a non-standard size recoil lug. Personally I ditched the AccuWedge and had a local 'smith mill out enough material to fit a full-sized surface-ground competition recoil lug for a large-shank barrel in there and called it good.

The original design used an MagPul AR stock which was too long and didn't go high enough. After some feedback from the testers they changed to using a Magpul G3 buttstock, and fabricated the coupler to attach it to the rest of the chassis after 3D printing a piece to test the fit - which is why I'm fairly sure they make the chassis themselves.

The tri-rail... is a little silly in my opinion on a gun like this, but hey its tacticool :rolleyes: All in all its a very solid gun, and if you ever get the itch to change the brake out its no big deal (regular 5/8-24 thread). Definitely a hoot to shoot!

Later they came out wit the 110FCP in .338LM, which is more like what I wanted at the time - a more conventional HS stock with a much lighter brake and without the funky tri-rail. Same action, trigger and mags.

YMMV,

Monte
Title: Re: Savage 110 BA/LE Info?
Post by: hunting4sanity on February 26, 2013, 10:27:28 PM: The 110 BA is an awesome rifle, accurate and very fun to shoot. It's a heavy gun, probably not going to lug it around in the hills hunting, but I'm impressed with the rifle. The tri-rail does seem to just be there for looks like memilanuk pointed out, switched it out to single rail and I prefer it that way. We've had the gun for almost two years and if you're looking for a good heavy range type rifle, I think you'll like it.
Title: Re: Savage 110 BA/LE Info?
Post by: jjhunter on February 27, 2013, 06:42:19 PM: I shot my buddy's last month. He only gave me three rounds :chuckle:, but I put them into a little group of about .4" at 100 yards. Factory Swiss ammo, 260 grn if I remember correctly? Very little recoil, lots of muzzle blast. Impressive rifle, overall.
Title: Re: Savage 110 BA/LE Info?
Post by: 204chucknorris on February 28, 2013, 07:15:04 AM: This is my 110 FCP group last week. I am really enjoying this gun and caliber. This is with 300gr bergers.
Title: Re: Savage 110 BA/LE Info?
Post by: MadHatter on March 01, 2013, 07:30:58 PM: I was hoping for answers like "not worth the money" or "are so so, can build something better for the same price."

Now I might just have to go buy it based on all the great things I am hearing... Thanks Hunt-WA... Going to have to explain yet another rifle showing up to the wife. :-)

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