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I've been wanting an inexpensive, simple, and not too nice looking .22 rifle to keep in the garage for awhile now, and the Savage Mark II seems to fit the bill nicely. I got a used example on GB for $84.00 shipped, supposedly a broken front sight is all that is wrong with it. I have plenty of sights in stock to fit, probably stick a Marble's Bullseye on the rear too. What can you tell me about these rifles? Savage seems to have a really good reputation but I've never had any of their products before.
 

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All the ones I’ve had were great shooting guns. Sometimes you have to play with the torque on the action to stock to get the best accuracy out of them. The 22 mag was that way. I got it down to a 1” group at 200 after messing around
 

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All the ones I’ve had were great shooting guns. Sometimes you have to play with the torque on the action to stock to get the best accuracy out of them. The 22 mag was that way. I got it down to a 1” group at 200 after messing around
What he said!
 

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I have one and I'll echo the comments that stock screw torque makes a big difference. IIRC mine shoots great at 14 in-lbs but at 15 in-lbs groups open up.
 

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Awesome, that's about as good as I can do with any rifle while standing. The rifle is supposed to ship today. First thing I'm going to do is give it a good cleaning and paint the stock. The finish is worn and the front sight is broken so I would say it has not been treated kindly.
 

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When yer hot, yer hot! Also won a much nicer example with a wood stock and two mags for $130.00 total.

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Picked up the beater rifle today and, we have problems. The action is trying to come out of the stock. I really hope its just a loose bolt or something, we shall see when I get home from work. The seller claims it wasnt like that when they shipped it but they will make it right one way or another.

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Got it apart last night and heres what I can tell. Only the front action screw secures the stock in place, the rear one is just a stud which slips into a recess in the stock. The front screw has a bushing around it that is rusted in place and keeps the screw from coming out, also seems to be keeping the action screw from engaging the action more than slightly. Soaking the bushing in PB, hopefully can get it out of there. I think it is salvageable once I get the screw out and chase the threads, may get a new screw and bushing altogether.

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Ok, I think i have this figured out. The bushing is actually a stud that is threaded into the bottom of the action, with a female thread on the bottom that the stock screw goes into, see the pic of the parts diagram. Looks like the previous owner tried to remove the stock screw but ended up removing the stud from the action. Now, the stock is sandwiched between the screw head and the action stud. The threads dont look too bad on either one, hopefully I can get it apart and apply blue Loctite to the stud so it wont turn out of the action again.

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The head of the stock screw snapped off when i tried to remove it from the stud, so I'll be calling Savage for those parts tomorrow. Will also get spares for the ejector and collar spring. Meanwhile, I painted the stock and added a white bead front sight and Marble's Bullseye rear.

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The head of the stock screw snapped off when i tried to remove it from the stud, so I'll be calling Savage for those parts tomorrow. Will also get spares for the ejector and collar spring. Meanwhile, I painted the stock and added a white bead front sight and Marble's Bullseye rear.

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That turned out nice. Hope it's a shooter.
 

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Thanks. The action does stay put in the stock just fune unless you turn it upside down. I took the rifle out for a quick test drive this evening. With Remington Thunderbolts, the Savage was easily minute of squirrel and every round fed and ejected no problem. With W-W Power Points, about half failed to eject. Maybe I have alot of bad karma to work through after years of talking trash about Thunderduds!
 

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I think I have the same in stainless. Lotta miles behind the seat of truck and a LOT of rounds.
Only trouble was my Brother lost the mag lol.
I bought another blued one.
 

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Just got off the phone with Savage, ordered all the parts including new extractors and collar spring for $18.00. Hopefully that is all it will need, fingers crossed.
 

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Picked up the nicer rifle today and it looks just as good as the picture. Gonna be working all weekend though, so don't know when I'll get a chance to try it out. Probably going to put on it the Williams FP-GR receiver sight currently on my Henry. This sight is really made for the wider receiver and stock of a bolt action, it sticks out the side quite a bit on the thinner receiver of a lever action. I'll get the Henry drilled and tapped for a Williams FP-36 or Lyman 66, which fits it much better.
 

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Ok, installed the Williams FP-GR and a taller front sight on the nice Savage.

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Took it out to 30 yards and things look good so far!

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