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Anyone shooting and or reloading this one?
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We got in a Savage at the shop and the ammo should be in bound shortly, I'm curious as to how they perform compared to an HMR.

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I have one and really like it. I can't compare it to a HMR as I have never owned or shot one but it's very accurate. I think Savage could have put a better quality stock on it. I would have paid a little more if it had a better stock.

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I have one and really like it. I can't compare it to a HMR as I have never owned or shot one but it's very accurate. I think Savage could have put a better quality stock on it. I would have paid a little more if it had a better stock.

You're not going to get a "quality" Savage stock unless you get something like a Model 10.

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I shot both my WSM and HMR today.  Of course the penetration wounds are exemplary for each on paper :)  I have the WSM zeroed at 100 and could hit an 10" gong at 200 yards holding a few inches over.  Of course the gong didn't move, but you could hear the ting.

 

My dad rolled a groundhog with the WSM a month back and he said it just stopped.  No last step, no quiver, just dead.  I think for ground hogs and prairie dogs it's going to be a cool little round.

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I have the savage bmag and a few boxes of ammo hard to find you think 22 is hard to find go looking for this stuff. It is a great shooter took a squirrel at 120 yards but not enough of him left to make any dumplings out of so it is not going to be a squirrel hunting gun for sure. I think it would be great for varmints though. May bemy new coyote hunting gun at 100yds or less I would say it would be deadly on them.


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was thinking about one of these myself... Ruger  has there american rifle rim fires...haven't seen any in stock any where though...just the savage bmag

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Wish we had some in east TN glad I was able to pick up a few boxes a while back. Mine is a great shooter with the 20g bullets have not tried the 25g yet but have heard some have accuracy problems with it.

Jason
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Wish we had some in east TN glad I was able to pick up a few boxes a while back. Mine is a great shooter with the 20g bullets have not tried the 25g yet but have heard some have accuracy problems with it.

Jason

I have been reading that the 25gr grouped tighter than the 20 gr for a lot of people. All I have been able to find is 20gr myself so I can't say which is better.

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Let me know how those 25gr work.  I've only been shooting the 20gr.  I'm not getting great groups by my standards out of the BMag, but if I can't hit a groundhog at 100 yards, it's my fault not the rifle.

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Let me know how those 25gr work.  I've only been shooting the 20gr.  I'm not getting great groups by my standards out of the BMag, but if I can't hit a groundhog at 100 yards, it's my fault not the rifle.


My stock was rubbing barrel pretty bad when I got mine sand paper wrapped around a old film container fixed that tightened the groups right up may have to check yours out.

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Coyotes is why I bought mine the TWRA thinks for some reason it is wise to limit us to rimfire on WMA up here in the mountains for coyote hunting. So I picked one up for just that reason. 100yards and less it has no problems with yotes.

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I'm finding it sitting on the Walmart shelves on a weekly bases, and I don't go to Walmart until about 10:00am :pleased:

 

I guess since they're making it from nail gun blanks, brass should be plentiful for Winchester to divert it over to the ammo line.

I think it will remain readily available, unless all the .22 rimfire owners who can't find ammo rush out and buy a B-Mag :rofl:

 

I also think it be awesome for prairie dogs, as you can chuck the empty out on the ground and forget about it. I did one prairie dog hunt in Wyoming a few years back, and while it was a blast laying havoc on a dog town, it was a bit depressing on how fast you could delete your stash of handloads that took hours to produce and minutes to deplete!

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