What is a Savage model 12fv worth?

last time around when they went on sale after rebate they were about $220 i think it was. somewhere in there.

have seen them on sale around $300 or under multiple times in the last 18 months.

so if its a bone stock factory model - theres something to benchmark from.
 
$419.00 at Cabela's regular price.
I think the $100.00 rebate they had
ended Dec 31. Would have been 319.00
with the rebate last month.

So you should get it cheaper than
a new one.

Being a 22-250 you might want to know
the round count when making a offer.
 
Got mine at Cabela's, $319 on sale with $100 rebate, $219 plus tax (taxed on $319, of course). That sale happened enough times last year and for long enough, and the flyers were everywhere, I'd tell you THAT is your benchmark price for comparison. Not that a $400 rifle ever has a high resale value, but having them available at half price really put a damper on the used market.
 
Mines a 204 and I put it in a Boyd's stock. Think I paid top dollar for mine. But for me, thats normal. I never find a deal until after I buy something at full retail. Best suggestion I can give you is if you don't like the caliber, just rebarrel it to something else. Savages are easy.
 
If you rebarrel your bolt face will dictate what caliber you can rebarrel with. Look at Northland Shooters Supply. The Shilen drop in barrels for Savages are Select Match grade and have been spectacular performers. We have rebarreled 4 12FV's .204's and .223's to 20 Practicals. Unreal results. Value is exactly what you have already heard. The market is full of 12FV's right now. Good luck.
 
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With the new Boyd's stock, mine is a tank. The 26" heavy barrel and the laminate stock made a heavy rifle and being 204 pretty much makes it a bench or prairie dog rifle. I don't hunt prairie dogs so it gets shot very little even though it is super accurate. It may get sold or converted to something I can shoot in an occasional F-class match.
 
Originally Posted By: Chilly00It's not that I do not like the gun, I just never use it.

welcome to the club my friend. I found a stoeger 20ga O/U for $225 and figured good deal buy it, shoot some clays, rabbits, etc. I haven't touched it in 2yrs. 223rem savage sitting in the safe untouched as well as a 44mag carbine I found for $100. I'm a sucker for a deal, shoot them and it wears off and I'm stuck with a paperweights.
 
My best guess is $300-350 if someone really wanted it bad. They are back to $419 now but with the market being saturated with them last half of 2017....value is pretty much whatever someone is willing to pay you for it.
 
A little off topic as far as actual value goes, but I see no one has noticed that you actually have one of the original Model 12 FV rifles. Now I don’t know this as 100% fact, but as an owner of a 12 FV with the shiny blued action and barrel, I believe these were available as normal Savage models before they became the Cabelas exclusive models that everyone is buying now.

I have both versions. I purchased a 12 FV 22-250 around 13-14 years ago. A few years ago I snagged a 204 version and noticed that it has the matte black finish and you could only get it from Cabelas. My wife just purchased a 308 version for me for Christmas. The first two are tack drivers. I still need glass for the 308, so I have yet to shoot it, but I suspect that it will shoot lights out as well.

I’m sure the older ones aren’t really worth any more money, but I just thought the little tidbit of info would be fun to share. (Again, not sure if I’m 100% correct here) They sure are hard to beat for the price! Now I have good actions to build from after I shoot out the barrels!!!
 
Originally Posted By: pyscodogWith the new Boyd's stock, mine is a tank. The 26" heavy barrel and the laminate stock made a heavy rifle and being 204 pretty much makes it a bench or prairie dog rifle. I don't hunt prairie dogs so it gets shot very little even though it is super accurate. It may get sold or converted to something I can shoot in an occasional F-class match.

the weight is why every time i pick one up... i end up handing it back over the counter.

even in the synthetic stock they're a heavy gun with that long bull barrel.

i had a 700 SPS varmint in 223 that i traded for my VXIII for the same reason. great gun, shot well, but not a rifle i wanted to walk around with. especailly when my then realtivley new to me bushmaster 223 was shooting around 1/2 moa with handloads. it just never came out of the safe.
 
Heavy guns are not made for walking around, well not far or until you get smarter..
A short walk to shoot a woodchuck, off the bench for punching paper and p-dogs when much ammo is to be spent.

There are some rifles that should be sent down the roads for various reasons and some that are not. Just because you might not use them now or in a couple years, they don't cost anything to store. Someday when you have a use for it and it's there you will be happy to still have it. Much better than selling it for pennies. That said, selling to use the money to upgrade can work well if done wisely.

I have a rule.... "Gun money is gun money". Whatever money used to buy is kept for a purchase of another,if the said gun is sold.
 
Originally Posted By: Al HansenIf you rebarrel your bolt face will dictate what caliber you can rebarrel with.

Not really - the Savage boltheads are rather affordable. There are other factors, shank size, mag box/follower, but the Savages are pretty easily swapped around...

Of course, the problem then becomes economical - if I swap a barrel, bolthead, mag box, follower, and stock on a Savage 12FV, I'll be somewhere more than $700 into a $220 rifle. I can appreciate a lot of guys paid $400 for theirs, and if that gloss blued finish FV is worth $100-180 to you over a matte finish FCV, great... But a guy can buy a lot of rifle for the cost it takes to rebuild the Savages. If that's your intent, great, I do it myself, but "rebuild it" is a pretty expensive and complicated answer to the question, "I have a rifle I don't use, how much is it worth?" A guy can resell it for $200ish, because a bolt action Savage is worth $200 and the sale is over, and considering a $400 NEW bolt action will be $300-350 used, you're talking about losing $100-150... Alternatively, a guy could SPEND $700+ and be $1100 into the rig, which is only worth $400-500ish... So now we're talking about a value loss around $600... Sell the dumb thing...
 
Originally Posted By: VarminterrorOriginally Posted By: Al HansenIf you rebarrel your bolt face will dictate what caliber you can rebarrel with.

Not really - the Savage boltheads are rather affordable. There are other factors, shank size, mag box/follower, but the Savages are pretty easily swapped around...

Of course, the problem then becomes economical - if I swap a barrel, bolthead, mag box, follower, and stock on a Savage 12FV, I'll be somewhere more than $700 into a $220 rifle. I can appreciate a lot of guys paid $400 for theirs, and if that gloss blued finish FV is worth $100-180 to you over a matte finish FCV, great... But a guy can buy a lot of rifle for the cost it takes to rebuild the Savages. If that's your intent, great, I do it myself, but "rebuild it" is a pretty expensive and complicated answer to the question, "I have a rifle I don't use, how much is it worth?" A guy can resell it for $200ish, because a bolt action Savage is worth $200 and the sale is over, and considering a $400 NEW bolt action will be $300-350 used, you're talking about losing $100-150... Alternatively, a guy could SPEND $700+ and be $1100 into the rig, which is only worth $400-500ish... So now we're talking about a value loss around $600... Sell the dumb thing...
You are correct. You can change the bolt heads .
 
Seen some model 12 savage's at the gun show today.

One was a 223 center-feed top bolt release, cheap tasco
scope $700.00

Another with no scope $450.00, think it was 22-250

Thought there was another one around 425.00 don't recall
the caliber.

Wasn't a very good show, powder and bullets could be bought
cheaper a cabela's and sportsmans. Lots of old powder and primers
 
Originally Posted By: who me
Wasn't a very good show.

Not so bad. I got 100 rounds of .44 Mag for $20 and you got a free hamburger out of it. Could have been worse.
 


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