Think you heard wrong about blowing up the sw.I shoot a pretty stiff load useing sw and sst's @2440 fps,( have shot up over 26oo fps ) and haven't blowed up any like a varmit bullet yet.Some shoot higher fps than I do.
There were 8 deer from 78 yds to 225 yds and all complete pass throughs,with my savage this past year.Useing the SW and SSt's 250 gr.
You can get a lot of info from guys that actually shoot the savage at:
http://dougva.proboards34.com/index.cgi
Check out the target below shot at 300 yds with the savage