I had a 110 Savage with dbm in green stock, sporter weight barrel, .243 and a Savage Axis 2 in .300 BO. I had not scoped or shot either one, got them in trades for reasonable prices. I put a 4x12 Vortex crossfire with duplex reticle on the .243. With 100 gr handload, shot under 1/2" at 100 yds, an with 70 Sierra bthp matchkings, shot a ragged hole in the low .300's, for 3 3 shot groups. The .300BO got a 4x12 Vortex crossfire with BDC reticle. I had loaded some 125HP Speer TNTs at 2400fps and some 220 Sierras at 1100fps for subsonic loads. With the first crosshair, I zeroed the 125gr at 2" high at 100 yds, should have me good on varmints out to 250 yds or so. I messed around, and found the 220gr shot dead on top of where the stadia goes from thick to thin, comes up in a triangular pt. Both loads shot sub 1/2" groups, which made my day. Both were on left and right. The rifle would shoot 2 in one hole with a 3rd touching the first. Did this for both loads, 3 3 shot groups were nearly identical. I hear bad things about Savage rifles, have owned and still own a bunch of them, no issues with any of them, and most are deadly accurate. I expected the .243 to shoot like it did, but was suprised an tickled pink with the 300bo. These were some of the first rounds fired out of the barrel, and to see it shooting so good, with the first loads i tried, made my day. Just thought I would share.