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Savage Model 11 243

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Picked up a Savage in a trade for my son Saturday

Savage model 11 243

non accutrigger and older style stock

I shot it last night at 50 yards with Remington 100 grain bullets and man that trigger sucks! I estimated it was a 6 lb trigger when I first picked it up..

but I bet its 9 lbs or better. lol

sometime today I am going to clean that trigger up and hopefully get it down to around 3 lbs

the group at 50 yards with those remcorelocs was about 1' grouping at 50.

I have several different types of bullets and hoping to find a factory load that shoots less than a inch for son to hunt deer with.

any of you ever clean a factory trigger and do good with it?
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Yes, every year I break all my guns down over the winter and clean them all. I have that same exact in a 243 and 7mm Rem mag. Neither gun had over 5# of trigger out of the box, but I clean and polish the trigger to get the most out of it. I don't care what anyone says, I'll take a Savage any day! The 243 I bought at work for $150.00 with a Bushnell Trophy 4 x 12 and 2 boxes of shells, I also bought the 7mm at work NIB with a simmons for $125.00 ( I love guys that don't have money for the bar on Friday night ) The 7mm has turned out to be one of my favorite deer guns!
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Right Fatno. I had a feller who worked for me that would buy guns at tax time and when he got a bonus at work. Would sell me guns dirt cheap every couple of months it seemed. I finally asked him to take me to the gun store the next time he went to buy another one.

He asked me why?

I told him: So I can get the gun I actually want from you when you sell it to me.
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Here's what I did to lighten the pull. Feels like it could be 3-3.5 lbs now.

I need to polish the seat.. but have never done that.
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Didn't feel like it had any creep.
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Adjust then polish with Flitz, then spray it down with a good Teflon lube.
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Here's a model 600 243 @ 50yds
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Here's Ricky's target
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Thanks Brice ! That's 5 shots at 50 yds . It shoots really good cause it belonged to a fella from Tenn . :thumbup:
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vaturkey wrote:Thanks Brice ! That's 5 shots at 50 yds . It shoots really good cause it belonged to a fella from Tenn . :thumbup:
Welcome! Them 600's are good shooters


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That gun will actually shoot tighter than that @100, with handloads. Need to get the load to him. Keep forgetting. :banghead:
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Shooter wrote: August 30th, 2017, 11:56 pm That gun will actually shoot tighter than that @100, with handloads. Need to get the load to him. Keep forgetting. :banghead:
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Have an axis that shoots very well with the Barnes Vortx. I love the accutrigger
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ICDEDTURKES wrote: August 31st, 2017, 7:17 am Have an axis that shoots very well with the Barnes Vortx. I love the accutrigger
I can't remember what you said a while back about them Barnes.. are those reloads or are they factory made?
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hoobilly wrote: August 31st, 2017, 8:12 am
ICDEDTURKES wrote: August 31st, 2017, 7:17 am Have an axis that shoots very well with the Barnes Vortx. I love the accutrigger
I can't remember what you said a while back about them Barnes.. are those reloads or are they factory made?
Factory they are awesome.. shot fusion well too
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