Savage Scout in 308, is it any darn good?

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sgt dwayne a smith

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I need some advice on this rifle. I like this rifle just fine and it will fill my needs for a bolt action rifle. It's short, light, and packs a punch. It is set up for a forward mounted scope, and I like the idea of that. Also it has the ghost ring sight that I can use right off the rack. It may be a some time before I can find just the right scope that I like/can afford for it. My only drawback is that I wish it was a 30-06. I'm set up to reload that size of round. And it would be cheaper for me to shoot. But I really like the Savage Scout. So Please Give Me Some Advice.

PS- Before anybody says it, there is no way in hell my wife will let me spend 2K of my own money on a Styer Scout.

Thanks Guys.
 
Well, Johnny Guest likes his. I didn't shoot it, but I can see where it would work just fine after getting used to the forward mount of the scope. For me, that would be the part of the deal for "re-training". What the heck, he managed to hit my 500-yard target...

There's no such thing as too many sets of resizing dies. :)

And your wife will understand that with all the money you saved by not buying the Steyr, you can now afford a gun for her and another gun for you! Isn't that the logic she uses on you, after going to a "sale"?

Good luck,

Art
 
Your second sentence sums it up: I like this rifle just fine and it will fill my needs for a bolt action rifle. What else is there?

A little caution on the sight. I put the same type (Williams WGRS) on my Savage .308. Quality is poor; it never lasted more than 3 or 4 shots without the adjustment screws loosening. Spend a little more and get an Ashley.

And BTW, with its Ashley sights, and me at the helm, this gun will shoot about 1-1/2" at 100 yards with off-the-shelf ammo.
 
Ashley sights on a Savage Scout?

Hey, Jeff,CA tell me more about this ashley rear sight for the scout rifle? I don't want the ghost ring rear sight to shoot loose after 4 or 5 shots? So how much more $ does the Ashley rear sight apateur cost? Also what type of optics/scope do you use on your Savage? Any pics of your rifle?
Again thanks for your help.
 
TimW has a Savage in .30-06 (left hand). He wanted to scoutify it just for the hell of it. Savage does not make a scout rifle in that trim. So he called Savage and ordered all the scout stuff he would need to convert his. Savage sent him the goodies.

Rick
 
Mine's the plain, synthetic left-hand model, the 11FL. It originally had the barrel-mounted rear sight. About the only difference is mine has a 22" barrel; the scout, 20". I don't have any pictures of mine, but you can see one like it at http://www.savagearms.com .

For Ashley sights, go to http://www.ashleyoutdoors.com . Instead of a ramp-style elevation adjustment (which is what kept coming loose on the Williams), the aperture has a threaded stem that screws up and down, and is held in place by set screws going in from both sides. The set screws are also the windage adjustment. Nothing moves fore-and-aft, so nothing can creep under recoil. It's all steel, whereas the Williams is aluminum.

The rear assembly is $60. My original front sight was all plastic, so I got a steel base from Savage ($15?) and put in a steel blade from Ashley ($30). When you buy the rear assembly, they will send you a couple of temporary, plastic front sight posts scored in the same height increments as the permanent blades. You shoot, snip, shoot, until it's close, then you buy a permanent blade the same height, then do your fine sight-in. It's easier to do than explain.

You can see, what I've got is about $100 worth of sights on a $300 rifle, but I think sights are like boots and speakers - they aren't the place to try and save money. This is my utility/knockaround rifle, so sights are all it needs.
 
I am pretty happy with mine. A good woods rifle, I use it for hunting. My recoil experiences are not bad, and it handles quite nicely with 165 and 150 gr. loads.
I installed a Leupold 2.75 scope extended eye relief, now that takes a bit of adjustment, but it works.
If you get one, get an aftermarket trigger for it. I tried adjusting mine and set it off seating the bolt, took it apart and reset much heaiver, almost to the point where you need a tow chain to pull it.
Accuracy is good I guess, I have never sat down to group it like other rifles, I am happy that it can perform in the 1-2MOA range ( I think alot of that is me, still not being used to the scope ). But one day it shot a 1/2MOA group on accident, I have never been able to perform that again.
 
Since the Savage scout is the topic I have a question, can the rear sight be removed and a conventional scope mounted? This would be only if I decided that I didn't like the forward mount or if I sold the rifle. Just curious.
 
Yes. The peep sight screws into the rear scope base holes, the rear end of the forward scope mount screws into the front scope base holes, and the front end of the scope mount screws into the barrel-mounted rear sight hole.
 
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