I bought a Savage 12 LRP about two months ago and after the initial trial noted a huge amount of copper fouling in the barrel. Much work with many products failed to remove it. Looking in the barrel I noted rather severe machining marks on both the lands and grooves of the bore. Took it to a few very wise friends of mine who advised me to send it back, so I did. It has been almost a month, and I called them today just to see what happened to the rifle. Seems they sent it out for accuracy testing without anything more than examination of the bore with a borescope. Ironically it must have passed the borescope test even though you could see the machining marks with the naked eye. Rather disappointed, as I was looking forward to the 6.5CM, but I guess I'' have to wait. I certainly hope Savage makes it good, as I've seen AK barrels finished far better than this one was.