I just purchased a Savage 14 Classic in .308 and seems to be a nice gun. Savage has a good reputaton for out of box accuracy, and Shilen is making drop in barrels, part if the reason I went with it.

I see in their cataloge they have a .22 modle, MArk II classic, looks just like the centerfire model. Wondering if anyone has seen, fired, touched one of these?

Thanks
chuck

It looks beautiful, but I've never seen one or heard of anyone using one. If you do, please let us know how it works out!

Avoid Savage rimfires like the plague. They have absolutely no relation to their centerfires.

The Savage is a lot of gun for the money. I used one of their bottom of the line .22's, cost $200.00 to take 3 rd place AA at the CA state championship. Worth looking at.

Chris C

You need to thoroughly inspect Savage rimfires before accepting one for purchase. They have an insane amount of quality control problems. *IF* you can find one that has no issues, they're half-decent. But that's the trick, finding one that has actually been looked after while being made in the factory. Good luck with that. It's really not worth the time. You're better off spending a little bit more on a CZ, which is pretty much guaranteed to be a good unit.

_Shorty wrote:You're better off spending a little bit more on a CZ, which is pretty much guaranteed to be a good unit.

Every CZ I've met in the past had potential to shoot well but were typically 90% done and needed varying amounts of tuning to shoot well. No fatal flaws, though.

Yeah, for example, the majority of them that have been shipped to North America need to have some wood relieved on one side of the barrel channel, as there is unintended contact with the barrel that should be corrected. They leave the factory free-floated, but the trip overseas on a ship seems to change the wood enough for there to be contact with the barrel by the time they make it to North America.

Small potatoes compared to the rather large amount of horror stories with Savages. I bought a Savage Mark II back in Jan '07, and got two warranty replacements over an 8-9 month period. And all three rifles had many problems, including many similar problems. I don't know if '07 was just a bad year at the Savage factory, or if there's just on-going issues there. At any rate, if you're going to buy a Savage, make sure you can physically inspect it before you buy it.

Never owned a Savage, so can't address those. Usual drill with a new CZ is to float the barrel, bed the action and do something with the trigger. As you say, nothing some easy, pleasant shop time can't fix, just not the out of the box home run we expect with a (more expensive) Weatherby or Anschutz.