My Favorite Factory Rifles of 2025

[Old Hickory]

It only took a couple of weeks or so until my Savage A17 Sporter .17 WSM rifle arrived home. Everything works like a brand new rifle and the action is really smooth. They even polished the bolt. Along with the rifle is a worksheet listed with all work they did. It involved a lot more than fixing the shroud problem. I doubt the rifle had more than a couple of boxes of ammo ran through it when I had trouble. Savage folks and guns are great!

 

[TheCZKid]

It only took a couple of weeks or so until my Savage A17 Sporter .17 WSM rifle arrived home. Everything works like a brand new rifle and the action is really smooth. They even polished the bolt. Along with the rifle is a worksheet listed with all work they did. It involved a lot more than fixing the shroud problem. I doubt the rifle had more than a couple of boxes of ammo ran through it when I had trouble. Savage folks and guns are great!

That's really good to know. Gun companies are not always know for their good service. Since I have the same rifle, I'm curious what all they did. Mine was the sporter model too, I didn't find out there was a heavier varmint version until a while after I got mine. I put mine in a Boyd's thumbhole stock.

 

[Old Hickory]

That's really good to know. Gun companies are not always know for their good service. Since I have the same rifle, I'm curious what all they did. Mine was the sporter model too, I didn't find out there was a heavier varmint version until a while after I got mine. I put mine in a Boyd's thumbhole stock.

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[Old Hickory]

Firearm inspection, check headspace, breakdown and clean bolt, polish chamber, replace trigger, check complete action, function fire.

 

[Old Hickory]

Savage A17 arrived home about two weeks after I sent it to Savage. It operates smooth as silk. Savage also included a list of work the fine folks performed.
Weather has been too crappy to get the scope sighted in. Of course, I removed the scope and sling before shipping.

I own three Savage .17 rifles and they are very accurate.

 

[EMC_Custom]

I'm still waiting to hear from Henry about the Long Ranger in .223 I bought in Oct. Had it 5 days, took it to the range twice, and the best groups I could get out of it were 2-3 MOA. Then I discovered the muzzle had only been half crowned .

 

[EMC_Custom]

My Favorite factory rifle of 2025 is this Bergara I picked up a couple of months back. It is chambered in .243 Win. It is a manufacturers mix up rifle, being as it came with a Trigger Tech trigger (got to love a free upgrade). This thing has produced some very impressive groups with Remington Core-Loct 100 gr. as well as Norma Whitetail 100 gr. bullets. I haven't worked up a load for it yet, but with 3 shot groups of less than 1/2" with two readily available factory loadings, I'm not sure handloading is necessary.