New Savage BMag in Stainless Heavy Barrel

This thing is awful sexy looking… I hope Savage improved the quality over the original.

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I think it would be a bigger turn on to have her wearing a salt/pepper thumbhole stock…..and imagine a 8-40×50 Burris scope married to it

I agree, it’s a good looking rifle. However…

After my hair-raising, near-purchase experience with the original BMAG, I’ll be sitting it out for a while longer. Man, did I dodge a no-pun-intended bullet with this one. I had the guy at the counter bringing out every B-Mag they had and each one looked and felt worse than the last one.

I’m glad Savage seems to have put this on the path to improvement because I love the concept behind the cartridge. Over the long haul, I think this is one of the few new cartridges that has the potential to see mass adoption and last.

Grouse

I want this cartridge so badly but I’d need to get my hands on one first to see if it is actually better quality.

I’m sure it will be a feature with Savage at the Shot Show. I’ll definitely make it a point to go by and see it

Did Savage ever improve/beef up the stock so the Bmag’s will shoot straight?

Can’t wait to hear the review Randy. The 93 models are amazingly accurate so I don’t know why they can’t get the same from the Bmag.

Kooty, a couple of my dealers had it in stock, so played with them between customers coming into the store.

I didn’t get to shoot it, and I won’t be at the range day at shot show, so I won’t get to shoot it there.

Barrel, extractor design, and a bit higher elevation of action above the stock. All good in my opinion. Even with the factory synthetic stock, it felt good.

Two things stood out at me that I didn’t like. Locking the bolt was like trying to torque header bolts. Easy to grip and a relatively short throw. But way too tight to close. All 3 that I picked up were like that. If you ever chambered a round that had way too long of an AOL and the bullet was jammed into the lands, is about how it felt…without dropping a round into it.

The second thing I noticed on all.3 and probably not significant was how crooked it sat in the stock. All 3 had the barrel on a noticeable angle to the stock. When you shoulder it and have a comfortable position, the barrel wasn’t straight down the stock. I would take apart and remount/shim if I were to get one.

Otherwise, looks like it would be a fun round to shoot

Sounds like I need to go check one out for myself.

I agree, I would look at it with my hands before ordering one into a FFL drop site

Now that holidays are past, I’m hoping things will slow down a bit for me. I haven’t had time to even think about stopping at Cabelas to check one out.

Good luck Kooty. Keep us posted as I am also curious about them.

Dave

Well, I went and looked at Cabelas this weekend. The Bmag is still a let down as far as the action goes. It also didn’t have the high gloss stainless like the pic shows. It was not at all what I had hoped. Oh well, I’ll keep waiting for them to get better or someone else to make an affordable model.

Kooty, the pic I took at Shot of the new 2015 was blurry. Here is the new one on the bottom – Unfortunately, they all use that short throw bolt with the stiff spring for cocking the pin. I heard a number of people, including myself, complain about how how awkward it feels. Otherwise, nice feeling gun.

My daughter wants a new .22lr. Thinking the new A17 semi .17HMR instead (shown on top)

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Wow, your ears must have been burning. I was just coming to see if there was an update to this post. Thanks Randy!!!

Kooty, you have no idea how much I need to get out and burn some powder. 3 days of being in a gun porn site, and not getting to (edited for our viewing audience)……Let’s just say I had the most beautiful firearms in the world cradled in my hands, and only got to dry fire a few.

BTW – If you ever thought you touched a good trigger, you need to touch the HS Precision trigger.

IT’s a good thing you can’t buy them there. Most guys would go home in debt!

HS Precision Trigger???? Details???? Of course, special point of interest would be if they have one to fit the Axis or not.

HS makes their own triggers for their custom builds. I’m guessing the Axis is not an option. I dry fired a lot of rifles there. At about 2-1/2#, the element of surprise was absolutely perfect to what a lot of F class and snipers have been teaching me. It was so crisp and clean compared to any trigger I ever touched. So hard to describe, yet felt so perfect – make sense???

I wanted to take this HTR (built by HSP) home with me in the worse way. At the time, I may have been willing trade my wife for it.

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Randy Wieland wrote:

I wanted to take this HTR (built by HSP) home with me in the worse way. At the time, I may have been willing trade my wife for it.

I want more details on this!