Forest Ghost
New member
Took a couple samples of ammo to the range to test my new barrel and holy moly is 21” for 223 a good length. Factory 26” bull cut and crowned to 21”. Savage long action with a PTG 223 bolt head. Wood stock pillar and glass bedded. I think I need a longer extractor or something because all the rounds either pull out and don’t eject or they make it a couple inches out. The accuracy though!
Black hills 60g vmax would all land in the same hole at 100 yards, just incredible
Everything else was under an inch except cheapo 100 for $30 Walmart federal which was 1.5”
Also I’ll now never buy a box of Hornady superformance 53g again. With my CZ I had a couple duds and only so so accuracy. Now with this savage I had a dud and I put 3 rounds in .75” and the 4th had a much louder crack and recoil and landed 1.5” higher then the group. Only rounds to FTF in close to 500-600 rounds of cheap and high grade has been this crap. Even IMI 5.56 hasn’t failed in the CZ. Cancelled my back order for 6 more boxes at midwayUSA for $16 a box. It’s unreliable junk.
Black hills 60g vmax would all land in the same hole at 100 yards, just incredible
Everything else was under an inch except cheapo 100 for $30 Walmart federal which was 1.5”
Also I’ll now never buy a box of Hornady superformance 53g again. With my CZ I had a couple duds and only so so accuracy. Now with this savage I had a dud and I put 3 rounds in .75” and the 4th had a much louder crack and recoil and landed 1.5” higher then the group. Only rounds to FTF in close to 500-600 rounds of cheap and high grade has been this crap. Even IMI 5.56 hasn’t failed in the CZ. Cancelled my back order for 6 more boxes at midwayUSA for $16 a box. It’s unreliable junk.