New Savage 10

**dwalk** · February 27th, 2016, 12:31 PM

Wife was nice enough to buy me a brand new Savage 10 for Valentine's Day. I'm going to mount this Nikon 4-16x42 scope I've got from an old rifle on it later today, then finally take it to the range and see which loads it likes.

**Armor Snail** · February 27th, 2016, 03:26 PM

What caliber?

**dwalk** · February 27th, 2016, 03:53 PM

308. 24" barrel 1:10 twist rate.

**aubie515** · February 27th, 2016, 09:29 PM

Depending on how far you want to shoot the rifle...I'd say 168gr for up to 600 yards...beyond 600 yards, I'd recommend 175/178gr...I'm partial to 178gr Hornady Amax.

**Bang** · February 28th, 2016, 02:35 AM

I have a FCP-K 24" fluted LE series in .308. Fantastic rifle. Especially with hand loads that it likes. So far it's been 168 SMKs to 200.

**dwalk** · February 28th, 2016, 08:40 PM

I got the scope mounted and bought a few boxes of different weight of factory loads (150, 168, 175, and 180) to try out. I didn't get a chance to take it over to the range yesterday since I had some car maintenance that took longer than I expected.

**abner13** · February 28th, 2016, 09:03 PM

I bought one used many years ago from someone who wanted to 'move up' to a Remington 700 Police Sniper model. We met up at the range about a year later , and the Savage and me were shooting groups that made him cry.

I added a Bell & Carlson stock and Timney trigger. With good match-grade ammo or good handloads , it'll put 5 in a 1in target square all day long.