welcome to the social regressive sadly our time with the Savage B22 FV-SR has
come to a close it's been a whole lot of fun we've had a handful of challenges
that we've done with this rifle in order to test its capabilities better for you
guys so you can better understand its handling its ergonomics its weight its
balance its overall accuracy and I'm gonna put a link over here to the full
playlist because each of these we've broken down into individual videos so
you can see how it performs in these various tests Before we jump into the
full retrospective review where we talk about those challenges and the hardware
and how it's all worked out I just want to give a big shout-out to all the folks
that have helped me get this this review out to you guys first off thank you to
my Patrons of the Destructive Arts out on Patreon these are guys that you know
chip in a couple of bucks every month to help me not only get some of the
equipment that we're using here but it also makes it a little bit easier for me
to trade my work time for trigger time so that I can get out and get these
reviews for you thank you to Savage to Weaver to Federal for helping to provide
me with some of the equipment that we've been playing with here this is a T&E gun
this is going back and yeah just thanks a bunch you guys out there you've been a
great big help as with all my rifles I started out by removing the screws
making sure that everything was properly torqued down and that there was loctited
where the screws should have it and then I was able to go out and do
some group tests once I was pretty well assured that the accuracy of the rifle
was very good and that the scope was right on I went out and performed the
egg challenge with this and this one deviates from that centerfire egg
challenge we've done before that one is 300 yards prone but this one has three
different distances and it has three different positions it starts in the
standing position at two eggs at 25 yards at 50 yards you can sit or kneel
and then at a hundred yards you can go prone and on this one I only missed one
I missed the 50-yard kneeling egg that first one but everything else came
together pretty well this challenge was a real test for the
scope it's a weaver grand slam multi-stop scope which is weird and wonderful
it allows you to put in little markers on the turret to
show where various drop values are so if you know the distance to a target or you
can make a decent estimation all you have to do is just spin up to that
appropriate distance and then your drop is dialed in for windage you use the
reticle which has a maximum of 12 MOA to each side of that centered dot
it's a nice clean interface it works really well and it was very quick in
this challenge the scope and the rifle were a great combination for the
silhouette match the rifle itself is very accurate even if it is a little
imbalanced for this particular style of competition and the scope itself since the
ranges are known on this particular challenge I was able to just quickly
dial between the forty, sixty, seventy-seven, and then hundred-meter
spots on that scope and then I was able to use the reticle for any windage that
I might have seen the wind was actually pretty low so I didn't have to deal with
it too much but the scope would have been up to the challenge I also
performed a sound test with this rifle using a suppressor and subsonic
ammunition and this is how we found that the pew sound in Hollywood myth is
actually not a myth and that sound actually exists now it is being
improperly applied most of the time but it's kind of neat to hear that that
original view sound probably was actually recorded by somebody the B
series of rifles includes three different chamberings you can get 17 HMR
22 mag and you can get 22 long-rifle which we've been testing here this is
the FV-SR so it has the heavy short and threaded barrel but they also have some
options with thinner kind of pencil style barrels which would be great for
hunting and they have a heavy longer one called the FV and all of these have
different applications is just going to come down to what you want
muzzle threading is the ar-15 standard 1/2 28 the bolt throw is easy and the
action is pretty slick if I could just give one recommendation to you guys that
are going to buy these things it would be to not so much use the bolt knob as a
handle to move things up and down rather use it as a stop so your fingers
will be kind of be behind here and that's because this bolt knob is
actually pretty long and if you get way out here sometimes you can kind of bind
up the action a little bit just because there's so much torque being applied to
the the front end of the bolt in the raceways there one of the unique
features of this rifle is that it does feature a barrel nut like you get on
centerfire savages so you could ostensibly swap out barrels and you
might even be able to change calibers this action should be standard for the
17 the 22 wmr and the 22lr so if you wanted to swap between them I can see
how it might be possible if you kind of change out some things around the
magazine and swap out that barrel and it just might work
speaking of the magazine the magazine is a rotary arrangement kind of like what
you're used to seeing on rugers and for those of you that start loading this
thing for the first time and you wonder if it can actually fit all ten rounds in
there yes it can and over time it will break in more and more so that you can
actually get those in much more easily this one did take quite a while to break
in just like the sign says there is indeed an Accutrigger and it is
adjustable however it never did work that creep out it still has creep in it
and I'll be curious to hear from some of you others that end up owning a b-series
rifle whether you have some creep in your trigger or if this is just a fluke
but you can see that you probably saw that tiny bit of take up before it kind
of got to the next shelf and then pop now it is still light it is still all
around that that 2 pound mark and really that was one of the the only things that
was holding me back from better scores at the the silhouette challenge aside
from the skills of the user of course there was the the trigger here and then
there was the balance of the stock we'll talk about the stock here I have the
plastic stock on mine it's very lightweight and it is actually more
rigid than I was expecting a lot of the polymer stocks can have a lot of flex to
them but this one is actually pretty stable and all the types of
testing that I did it never seemed to interfere with accuracy at all the only
thing that it really interfered with was just the balance since you do have this
heavier barrel out front and especially if you have a suppressor on the end
there just isn't enough weight out over the back of the rifle to make it very
comfortable for long periods of use it works just fine for you know kind of
quick stuff quick target work but yeah it just doesn't have the weight back
here of course there are some fixes for that you could put some extra weight in
the back you could get the hardwood model which is one that looks really
nice and I think is going to really fix that balance problem on all these rifles
it's going to put more of the weight at the back and it should just be a bit
more comfortable overall the forearm of the rifle originally came with this tray
installed between the inside of the forearm and the barrel and this is
intended I believe to give the the forearm a little bit more stiffness a
little bit more rigidity and I could feel before I removed it that it did
however since the the stock was flex just a little bit to one side it was
just coming too close for comfort it was just a little too close to that barrel
and I know if I were on a bipod it would have been touching so to remove
interferences I removed that tray this grip angle like I've mentioned before is
a very nice compromise between a hunter style and a target style it really does
kind of split the difference it's comfortable in both situations I shot it
in a match I shot it just out having fun and it worked for both it's quick and
easy to deploy it's very easy to get on that to position safety you just reach
up with your thumb and it's right there you don't have to go reach over the top
of anything to get it and as far as other stock issues go the buttstock is a
bit on the short side like I mentioned I think it's about 13 it's just like the
pole 13 and 1/2 something like that it is rather short if you do want to get a
longer length of pall like I would in my case then it might be a good option to
swap out the stock at some point or they might have some spacers if you do buy
one of these beasts or rifles with a plastic stock and there
are some really great reasons to do so like keeping your overall weight low but
you want to be able to swap things out later for good or just every once in a
while swap it out for competition or something like that I'm sure
there will be some aftermarket options these things are just going to be
ubiquitous Boyd's at this point does not have a stock in letted for the B Series
rifles but I'm sure they will soon this is a Boyd's at one right here and this
kind of features some of the the funky things that you can get with this of
course it does have the adjustable butt pad and the adjustable comb and this has
their new ripple laminate which is kind of a weird thing to me this looks like a
gaboon viper and I'll be featuring this on another rifle build but I'm sure that
eventually they'll be making this and some other stocks for the B Series
rifles there is one thing that I need to point out on the barrel whatever the
phosphate coating or whatever it is on here it does not prevent rust quite as
well as say the older bluing did you can see these spots right here these are
where my fingers touch the rifle and then in some cases it was just by the
time I got home it had absorbed moisture and there was a little bit of surface
rust so I'll probably have to take a little bit of steel wool to this and I
had to keep it oiled just all the time if you go out in the woods with this
thing if you go camping with it make sure that you keep an oiled rag or
something with you because if you do touch the barrel or anything like that
then yeah rust appears actually pretty quickly is the b22 accurate yeah and
this isn't even the really expensive special match stuff these are mostly
ammunition that you're going to find in your local sporting goods stores or
ordering online this is the stuff that you'll actually keep in your bag I shot
all of these groups at 25 yards these were unsuppressed right here
this is my one target ammo that I use and this stuff turned out to be very
consistent I use this and some of the challenges that I shot like the egg
challenge if you want a bit more information on these groups and the
ammunition that I used be sure to check out that first kind of pre review video
that I did and that'll indicate what these are for the most part once I
popped a can on the rifle the group's tightened up considerably
and finally since this ammunition was printing really well at 25 yards I did
test it out at 50 right here that's a five shot group at fifty yards and then
at a hundred yards so that's about one and a half inches that's less than one
and a half inches across right there overall I highly recommend the savage B
series of rifles this one has been a whole lot of fun to use and like I
said there are all kinds of options now where you can choose the exact rifle
that's going to work for your situation if you want just a squirrel gun a pure
squirrel gun varmint gun then you can go with that thinner barrel and you can
even stick with that plastic stock and overall it's going to be really light to
pack around this might be something you could sling on the side of your pack if
you want something that you can trick out more for competition you
can go with that F model or FV model with the heavy barrel longer barrel and
if you swap out a stock on that or get the hardwood model that savage is
producing the balance is going to be good the feel is going to be good
that'll be a really good option and this one like I mentioned that initial review
video this one is kind of that compromise where you get a total overall
lightweight package with this plastic stock and you get a heavy barrel for all
kinds of you know good accuracy even as you heat this barrel up of course you
get the threaded barrel so if you wanted to do more you know kind of tactical 22
style use you can pop a can on there or whatever you want to do it
works out really well and overall all of these rifles come in at a really good
price point compared to the competition and it's just especially compared to
what you're getting you're getting a good light adjustable trigger you're
getting a 10 round magazine and you know a bolt that runs smoothly and really I
expect that no matter what barrel weight you get the accuracy is going to be
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