I fired 60 rounds through it, and looked again. One wonders if Savage remembered to lube the rifling button when they made this one.
It is one of the roughest bores I’ve ever seen-maybe the worst of any button-rifled barrel-with deep annular tool marks from lede to muzzle. Early on, I saw that my regular cleaning procedure didn’t come close to removing all the copper fouling, so I peered down the barrel with my Hawkeye borescope and emitted an unmanly shriek, as though I had seen a Gaboon viper, or Rep. As it says in Matthew 5, “If thine empty offendeth thee, pluck it out.” Since all F-Class shooting is single loading, this is not ruinous. The shell clears the chamber but then lies on the magazine follower like a beached alewife. There are occasional failures to eject, usually one in 30 rounds or so. For a factory gun to shoot like that out of the box…” “That little rifle impresses the hell out of me.” When I was testing the Stealth, the same High Master who opined about 20-shot groups was watching. It’s also extremely unfussy, extremely consistent, and sends everything it shoots to the same place on the target. This is a rifle that you can take to the rodeo and win a belt buckle. Eighteen of the 20 shots went into a single ragged hole that was. At 100 yards, on a day with perfect conditions, I fired one round per minute 20 times and got a group that measured 1.069. 658 and is nothing short of sensational in this rifle.Ī High Master shooter I know who hands out humility at every match says that a target rifle should be measured by 20-shot groups, since you fire 20 shots for record at each distance. It’s a new target bullet with the smallest meplat since the invention of meplats. The Nosler RDF (which stands for Reduced Drag Factor) did the best. 495Īny time you go below a half-inch in a factory rifle, you’re talking about very serious accuracy. Factory load, Nosler 140-grain Ballistic Tip.Factory load, Hornady 140-grain ELD Match.Each average is of three five-shot spreads. So I tested it as a target rifle, leaning heavily toward match ammo and bullets, and firing five-shot groups. Or any other kind of long-range shooting, including hunting, that tickles your fancy. The 6.5 Creedmoor version of the Stealth is for shooting F-Class, the unrestricted variety where you get to use a pedestal rest. The chamber is of absolute minimum dimensions.Īll this is intended to produce maximum accuracy. The Stealth action doesn’t feel like a standard Model 110 action. The following areas are custom ground to extremely tight tolerance: locking lug recesses, receiver face, bolt face, locking lugs, barrel nut, and recoil lug, which is thicker than the stock recoil lug.” Permit me to quote from a Savage representative: “For blueprinted target and long range rifles, more stringent tolerance limits are required. Blueprinting an action is common among makers of high-end custom rifles, but Savage does it at the factory. Everything that is supposed to be square is squared. Tolerances are kept to an absolute minimum. “Blueprinting” means making an action dimensionally perfect. The list price of the Stealth is $1,207, although in the real world it sells for substantially less. Weight of the rifle is 9.2 pounds, and it feeds from a detachable 10-round magazine. It has an M-LOK fore-end, a one-piece EGW scope rail, a Fab Defense GLR-16 buttstock with an adjustable comb, and a fluted barrel that’s threaded for a can, or a muzzle brake, and comes with a cap that doesn’t work loose in the course of firing.Īn Accu-Trigger is standard mine is set to just over 2 pounds, and breaks very nicely. The Model 10 Stealth is based on a blueprinted action, bedded in a monolithic aluminum chassis that’s machined from a solid billet, not a casting. 25/06 as a social gun? What could they have been thinking?Īnyway, in the real world, the 6.5 Creedmoor is for shooting targets, or for dropping deer at long range, so I’ll treat it accordingly. In the late 1990s, I bought a Savage LE in. Savage has a history of slipping unlikely cartridges into the cop category. The former is the supreme law-enforcement rifle cartridge, but the Creedmoor is a puzzle, as it was developed for target shooting, and is now branching into hunting with great success, but is in no wise designed for shooting people. 308 version, the Stealth comes with a 20-inch barrel, and in the Creedmoor with a 24-inch tube. It’s what I think of as a New Generation gun, which is what I see mostly now at the range in the hands of the true accuracy freaks. 308 and 6.5 Creedmoor, and is carried by Savage under its Law Enforcement Series. This is a bolt-action chassis-stocked rifle that’s made in. … Which brings us to the Savage Model 10 BA Stealth. We may earn revenue from the products available on this page and participate in affiliate programs.
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