I have been shooting a savage since they came out,have had 3 but down to one now,planning on getting one with the thumb hole stock when they come out.I have went through a few scopes with the savage because of shooting some heavy loads in it.I think it was 3 years (maybe 4 ) I put 1500 + sst's and SW through 2 savages,I had gotten 500 seconds at a very good price but had to buy the rest in boxes of 15 and 20's,so the cost wasn't small.
Year before last I set up a spare scope in case something happened to the one on the rifle during the hunting season.This past year went to the range to check the savage out a week before season opened,and the burris signature let me down,had a lepould 4x12 blisti-plexallready set up so I put it on and shot one at 300 yds,had to give it a couple clicks before getting the bullet in the circle(pic below) after that I shot one at 100 yds and it was touching a one inch dot at 9 o'clock.
Went to deer camp the next week shot 3 deer one at 170 yds,one at 200 yds and one at 230 yds.It was up in feb before I got a chance (or took the time to empty it) so I could clean it,shot 3 shots into 1 and 1/4 in at 200 yds.The sec pic is unloading after year before lastdeer season,really got lucky there are 2 bullets through that one hole,cannot tell it by looking at front but can see a ffigure 8 comeing out the other side,and wittnessed by 3 other guys at the range.This was after me taking 4 deer from 50 to 234yds,3 brothers taking deer from 100 to 225 yds and a friend taking one at 100 yds with my rifle,and useing my stand.
I don't know if 1-shot remembers (we posted back and forth on the big greenboard and e-mailtrying to get it to shoot smokless)or not but the first savage I had ML1 would not shoot smokless good enough for me to hunt with at all,think he figured out something was wrong with the barrel,I didn't send it back because it shot clean shot and pyro with xtpsso well.Not joking that thing would drive tacks at 100 yds,I let the fellow shoot it before he bought it and he couldn't believe he had just shot a one hole group at 100 yds with a muzzleloader.



Another 300yd group with the savage


Best target pic with the savage,one at 160 yds one at 200 yds