Savage 16 Light Weight Hunter

[SpannerAK]

I picked this rifle up on a impulse buy a month or two ago chambered in 6.5 Creedmoor and after 40 rounds down the barrel it started grouping at right at a MOA or better on factory loads. Only real complaints it has one of the roughest and sloppiest actions of any rifle I have ever shot. Doesn't feed as well as it should ether. If I can get this action smoothed out and feeding properly I might throw some more money in on it for upgrades.

 

[SpannerAK]

Played around more with this rifle this weekend, noticed that the helical bolt fluting likes to bind on the action. I think the magazine is causing the first round misfeed the rifle tends to have on the first round out of the mag.

 

[badkneesbro]

Any updates on this?

 

[SpannerAK]

I haven't gotten a chance to really mess with it. Though my wife did take it with her on her caribou hunt and its a very accurate rifle, 143 Hornady Precision Hunter, single shot drop the caribou in its tracks at 288 yards. I do think the loading issue is the magazine, I just need to find time to call Savage and see what they think. It's a four round mag and the first two rounds will nearly always have feeding issues, last two in the magazine has zero issues.

 

[rileybassman]

Bump up on this... how you liking it? Im contemplating getting the same rifle... get the mag figured out?

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[Sundodger]

If you are still having problems and if they won't warrante it, you could send it off to be TTT'ed.

I would try the OEM route first, but that's another option.

 

[GKPrice]

One of the Eastman bunch that runs the magazine and research business did a Savage Lightweight Hunter for himself 2 or 3 seasons ago and spoke pretty highly of it, killed his game, etc ....

 

[Ndbowhunter]

I'm not sure how strongly I recommend this course of action but toothpaste along your reciever rails and inside your bolt where the savage pin rides during unlocking and then cycling the bolt 800,000 times will sure smoothen out things. I've notice new savages have pretty nasty tooling marks. My axis was rough but getting stuck on anchor I'd run the bolt a lot and it's now almost as smooth as a tikka during bolt throw. Unfortunately the cocking and uncorking needs a proper timing by a gunsmith. Not worth it to me.

 

[efnm]

FYI - I trashed my trigger guard the first time I disassembled my LWH this year when I tightened the bolt during reassembly. Lame. I ordered a replacement plastic one and a metal one and installed the metal guard to avoid worrying about it in the future. The 3 oz was worth my sanity.

That said, the rifle shoots great and I quickly developed a 7mm08 load (120 TTSX & 43.5g Varget) that shoots quite MOA or better and I hope to demonstrate that accuracy to a mule deer in November.

 

[Manosteel]

My brother has shoot 4 moose and 5 elk with his Savage Lightwieght Hunter in 7-08 the last six seasons. 2 of the elk were monsters and one of them was shot just shy of 340 yards. He uses Hornady Superperformance 139 GMX. He loves his gun and has no plans of changing it up.

 

[rileybassman]

FYI - I trashed my trigger guard the first time I disassembled my LWH this year when I tightened the bolt during reassembly. Lame. I ordered a replacement plastic one and a metal one and installed the metal guard to avoid worrying about it in the future. The 3 oz was worth my sanity.

That said, the rifle shoots great and I quickly developed a 7mm08 load (120 TTSX & 43.5g Varget) that shoots quite MOA or better and I hope to demonstrate that accuracy to a mule deer in November.

Yup, I always install the stainless trigger guards on my savages

 

[efnm]

My brother has shoot 4 moose and 5 elk with his Savage Lightwieght Hunter in 7-08 the last six seasons. 2 of the elk were monsters and one of them was shot just shy of 340 yards. He uses Hornady Superperformance 139 GMX. He loves his gun and has no plans of changing it up.

I really wonder why I have the 30-06 now, to be honest, assuming mine performs as well with the 120 TTSX. The expected performance bump for the '06 comes past 300+ yards, which is probably past my comfort range anyway.

 

[MuleyFever]

Got my wife a 7-08 a couple year ago. I likes shooting it and Ft watching her drop a big cow at 200yds with the superformance I decided it would be nice if we just shot the same round. I picked up a savage LWH this year. I have not shot it yet but plan to sight it in either tomorrow or next week. Hoping for good things from it.

 

[SpannerAK]

I still haven't had chance to mess with the rifle, hunting season is starting to wrap up up here, I do plan to use this as my predator/trapping rifle this winter though.

 

[badkneesbro]

Got my wife a 7-08 a couple year ago. I likes shooting it and Ft watching her drop a big cow at 200yds with the superformance I decided it would be nice if we just shot the same round. I picked up a savage LWH this year. I have not shot it yet but plan to sight it in either tomorrow or next week. Hoping for good things from it.

Let us know whats up with that gun. Can someone chime in about the stock? Is it as noisy as my t3 stock? As in if you smack a plastic buckle against it for example.

 

[GKPrice]

Let us know whats up with that gun. Can someone chime in about the stock? Is it as noisy as my t3 stock? As in if you smack a plastic buckle against it for example.

has anyone thought of taking the recoil pad off and filling the buttstock void with "great stuff" ?

 

[rileybassman]

has anyone thought of taking the recoil pad off and filling the buttstock void with "great stuff" ?

Not exactly the same, but on other savages, i have put foam etc in the butt before. Works well.

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[Jimbob]

Has anyone weighed this gun? I just bought the savage lightweight hunter in blued/wood (.243) and it is coming over weight significantly at 5 lbs 14 ozs. The ruger american compact is coming in just under 6 lbs on the same scale (ruger compact listed as a 6 lb gun).

 

[badkneesbro]

Not exactly the same, but on other savages, i have put foam etc in the butt before. Works well.

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How much weight does that add to a gun?

 

[rileybassman]

How much weight does that add to a gun?

Haven't weighed it - use a different stock then what I originally did that to.