Those Savage 110’s along with your 12 (not familiar with the 12) are match rifles…real deal match rifles…..
I’ve seen more than a few in the winners circle at Ridgway Rifle Club, the only club in the US that does varmint bench rest silhouette…..crows at 850, groundhogs at 900, bobcats at 950 and coyotes at 1000. The best shooters in the country do this game and I THINK the best score is 36x40.
You wanna see some neat S….when you have time…check out this club.
http://ridgwayrifleclub.com/VBR/VBR%20Home.htm
At our club we do the half scale silhouette. from 200-500 meters……it took like 3 years before someone got a 40x40……best I ever did was a 33x40 but I was using a stock Colt M-4 in .223 …..all factory except the trigger…..80 grain Sierra or Berger match bullets single loaded and seated out as far as possible…22 grains of H3895 …..can hit a clay bird at 500 meters with this rig. Ain’t nothing to hit a beer can at 350-400 meters.
I’m not a bs er. I even had a special scope mount custom made for the BAR……at 24 pounds loaded and scoped, this rifle don’t move in the rest…….managed a 28x40 with this one……I had the guys laughing like crazy with the guns I use for competition…..been shooting levergun silhouette for about 12 years and every gun I used was an antique Winchester or a buffalo barreled (factory) 1881 Marlin in 40-60 Marlin caliber……
To be truthful I have not competed for 2 years coming up on 3……been doing this heavy since I was 18 and around the age of 65 or so, something clicked in my head and as some of my shooting buddies say, “fell off the Earth”……I had enough of competition politics where the best shooters are buddies with the match director and always get the upper hand according to position on the line.
Same thing at Ridgway or McKean County in the Pa State Champs….the locals can make mistakes concerning what bank or order they shoot in and it’s overseen but when a flat lander like me signs up with a Winchester that’s worth more than the car they drive they make sure they give me the worst positions according to the sun. I pointed it all out one time after having 3 witnesses and the director wouldn’t budge. …so, like my character is I told them all to go F themselves. Like I said earlier, I was getting tired of the game anyway.