I`m a Savage fan too. I just put a Shillon 26 in barrel in 243 on a 110 action. Mine has an 8 twist and what I`ve shot so far with 100 and 107 gr. bullets it will make a good deer rifle, but I`m just putting a few rounds down the barrel to help hone the bore and I`m going to run a 6-284 reamer in it and try for an 800 to 1,000 yrd. varmint gun. With the 10 or 15 rounds I have down the barrel I can see it will do 500 yrds. as a 243.