So normally I wouldn't do this but I know I would have liked to read this before I decided the way I did. About 2 months ago now I bought a new Savage 93r17 from Cabelas, sprung for the heavy barrel, laminate thumb-hole stock model for about $400. Thought this would be a great gun, decided to not spend the extra $150-200 on the CZ but man am I regretting that decision. Bad workmanship. floor plate is paper thin and bends easily under the action bolt load, and lastly it wont sight...
Over the course of owning this gun I've got to shoot maybe 4-5 frustrating clips. Before getting any decent scope on it I was just testing it a little up in the woods since my mounts hadnt come in yet and found it misfired approximately 2-4 rounds every magazine of both Federal and Winchester ammo. So I paid the shipping and sent the gun into Savage for warranty. The gun returned to me with some repairs and a bag of Hornady cases they had test fired. I retried the Winchester and Federal rounds and still the misfires persisted. I thought well that's disappointing but I suppose I'll just buy Hornady from now on.
Next my Weaver mounts showed up and my Weaver tactical rings and I mounted those all up and attempted to boresight the gun at approximately 20 yards initially. With no right adjustment or down adjustment left in the scope the gun was approximately 3 inches left and a foot or better high...at 20 yards!! In other words at 100 yards it'll be off by a mile!
I wish I could just return the damn thing and go pick up a CZ but looks like I'll be dropping another $25ish on shipping for pointless warranty service. My dads CZ and my cheapo Rossi will shoot any ammo all day long and sight correctly. Not sure what happened to Savage but I would stay away from them, this gun is a, now about $450, piece of ****. :banghead:
Over the course of owning this gun I've got to shoot maybe 4-5 frustrating clips. Before getting any decent scope on it I was just testing it a little up in the woods since my mounts hadnt come in yet and found it misfired approximately 2-4 rounds every magazine of both Federal and Winchester ammo. So I paid the shipping and sent the gun into Savage for warranty. The gun returned to me with some repairs and a bag of Hornady cases they had test fired. I retried the Winchester and Federal rounds and still the misfires persisted. I thought well that's disappointing but I suppose I'll just buy Hornady from now on.
Next my Weaver mounts showed up and my Weaver tactical rings and I mounted those all up and attempted to boresight the gun at approximately 20 yards initially. With no right adjustment or down adjustment left in the scope the gun was approximately 3 inches left and a foot or better high...at 20 yards!! In other words at 100 yards it'll be off by a mile!
I wish I could just return the damn thing and go pick up a CZ but looks like I'll be dropping another $25ish on shipping for pointless warranty service. My dads CZ and my cheapo Rossi will shoot any ammo all day long and sight correctly. Not sure what happened to Savage but I would stay away from them, this gun is a, now about $450, piece of ****. :banghead: