The Art Of Tactical Carbine
Savage 1. 0 Precision Carbine Sniper Central. We have reviewed various Savage tactical rifles over the years but yet Savage continues to develop and introduce new models and make significant changes to their existing line up. This does warrant occasionally grabbing one of their latest offerings and giving it a fresh look. This time around it is the Model 1. Precision Carbine, somewhat of a light weight precision tactical rifle designed to be lugged around easily and without much weight. Savage has had their Accu. Trigger for a while and now has what they call their Accu. Stock which is an attempt to improve upon what has been a very poor offering in regards to a rifle stock. With these changes and an opportunity to evaluate a new, unfired, off the shelf Precision Carbine, we thought now was as good a time as any to take a look at one of the newer offerings from Savage Arms. Savage has perhaps introduced more new tactical and long range target oriented rifles than any other mainstream rifle maker out there. Whether it is a FTR or Palma target rifle or a chassis system tactical rifle, they have been rolling out new versions of their precision rifles on a fairly regular basis. This does sometimes make it a bit difficult to keep track of them all and there are several new features that they develop that can actually prevent backward compatibly for after market parts, such as when they changed from the flat style rear portion of the action to the rounded style a few years back. While this can be aggravating to the after market supplier of parts, and therefore the end user, it also shows that Savage is not afraid of making bold changes and trying new things. Savage has come a long ways in the past 2. Remington, Tikka, and others. In this particular case we have the Savage model 1. Precision Carbine. This is intended to be a light weight and easily portable tactical style rifle that does utilize Savages new Accu. Stock and detachable box magazine. We wanted the opportunity to take a look at the Accu. Stock to see if it was an improvement over their older injection molded stocks that were not even able, without major work, to keep the barrel free floated while using a bipod. Overall the rifle is compact and easy to handle with a short overall length and for a heavy barreled rifle, light weight. If you have handled a Savage rifle before, then you should feel right at home handling the Precision Carbine. Because the rifle is only offered in two caliber choices, the 3. Click Here for All Brands. Please note that we carry too many brands to list. If you need a quote for a brand not listed do not hesitate to contact our government. Rimfire for sale in New Zealand. Buy and sell Rimfire on Trade Me. Art-of-Tactical-Carbine.jpg' alt='The Art Of Tactical Carbine' title='The Art Of Tactical Carbine' />Win and 2. Country Soul Sisters Soul Jazz Rar. Rem, It does utilize the short action version of the 1. This action is typical Savage with its modular bolt design which does allow for easily changing bolt knobs and even the bolt head. Shop from the worlds largest selection and best deals for Hunting Scope Mounts Accessories. Shop with confidence on eBay Browse all new and used Military Rifles M1 Carbine for sale and buy with confidence from Guns International. List of 386 AR15308 Brands, makers and vendors. Rating, sort and search will be back soon, probably by 82716. The modular bolt is handy for switching things up, even calibers with a barrel swap, but it does make the action not quite as smooth as say a Remington 7. Tikka T3. Savage does claim that the modular bolt face acts as a floating bolt head and negates the need to lap your lugs. There may be some merit to this fact, though Im not sure I have ever quantifiably verified that. The provided bolt knob on the Precision Carbine is their large tactical style knob and I like the size and shape of the knob, which does work well with gloved hands. The rear of the newer Savage actions is fully rounded like the front of action, instead of being flattened like they used to be. This leaves substantially more metal there and gives the rear of the action a very tall and large appearance. The barrel is 2. 0 long and made of carbon steel with all of the barreled action metal being finished in a nice matte black bluing. The Art Of Tactical Carbine' title='The Art Of Tactical Carbine' />The barrel uses a different contour than the standard Savage heavy barrel and it tapers quicker which contributes to the lighter weight of the barrel and rifle as a whole. The diameter at the muzzle on the Precision Carbine is. Savage. The barrel on the 3. Win version of the Precision Carbine has a 1 1. The faster twist rate does allow for the use of heavier weight bullets such as 1. HPBT ammo. As many of you know, on Savage rifles the barrels are threaded into the action like any other rifle, but their is no shoulder that bumps against the recoil lug like on a Remington or other, instead the barrel is set in place at it the proper head space by the use of a barrel lock nut. The barrel nut on the older Savage rifles has little notches in them so you could easily use a specially designed wrench to loosen and tighten the barrel nut allowing for easy barrel swaps. The new Savages use a smooth barrel nut without notches which makes it, by design, not as easy to swap out a barrel. With that said, there are strap wrenches out there that do allow you to do it if desired. Liability disclaimer here only a qualified gunsmith should swap out a barrel due to the dangers involved with incorrect headspacingOne major complaint with Savage rifles for a while has been their cheap injection molded plastic stocks that were not even stiff enough to maintain a free floated barrel when using a bipod or shooting from a sand bag. Restaurant Management Software In Vb Net Picture. The front forearm was flimsy enough that it would just flex and touch the barrel. In answer to this problem Savage came out with what they call their Accu. Stock which not only resolves the free floating issue by adding stiffeners, but also includes a unique mounting system that is suppose to improve accuracy by applying pressure not only vertically in a traditional way, but also horizontally with embedded rails on the side of the action as well as fore and aft by the forward action screw and the way it is designed to apply pressure to the recoil lug to tighten it in the stock. The stock itself is a thinner lightweight style profile that reminds us here a bit of the original M4. A1 stock with thin forearm and raised comb. On the Precision Carbine rifle it has a digital camouflage pattern. The stock material itself is still an injection molded style plastic and does not have a very solid feel, but the forearm is now stiff enough to maintain a free floated barrel even when using a bipod or sand bags. Overall the rifle is a lighter weight rifle that is handy and easy to lug around in the field. The advertised weight from Savage for the rifle is 7 lbs, which we thought was a bit optimistic, so we put the bare rifle, with empty magazine inserted, on our calibrated shipping scale and it sure enough, it weighed 8. That is quite a bit of discrepancy over the published weight and while Savage does indicate that all weights and dimensions are approximates, I would probably encourage Savage Arms to make it a little more accurate, perhaps 8 lbs. Regardless, we still consider the rifle light weight in terms of a tactical rifle. The Precision Carbine uses the Savage Detachable Box Magazine DBM system that holds 4 rounds in a magazine that fits flush to the floorplate. The magazine is released by pulling back on a magazine release lever at the front of the floorplate which then positively releases the magazine. When inserting the magazine it snaps into place with a positive click and is fairly easy to insert and operate. There are no larger capacity magazines that we are aware of at this time. The magazines were straight forward to load with 4 rounds and the rifle chambered rounds from the magazine smoothly and without any hiccups during our tests.