Going for the Long Shot

August 2012
 
My friend asked me to go varmint shooting with him next summer so I decided to put together a varmint rifle for the trip.  I sold a couple of things and started with a Savage Model 12FV basic target/varmint rifle.  Below is a shot of the basic rifle:

Savage Model 12FV right out of the box.

The rifle Specs can be found here.  The model is a .223 with a heavy barrel and 1:9 twist.  The Accu Trigger is pretty sweet.  The factory stock is pretty bad and is very flimsy like Tupperware.  I plan to replace the stock with a Thumbhole model.