Yeah. I field tested one and liked it--enough that I tried to buy one. Twice. Shot the field test gun quite a bit with good results, no issues. But I didn't like the matte finish barrel. Word was those were early guns, later ones would be blued. So Savage sent me one with blued barrels . . . and seriously messed up checkering. It's laser cut, but they must've had a monkey on the machine at CSMC rather than a human. Two different types of checkering on the stock--one coarser, the other finer--in the same panels on the wrist. (The field test gun did not have that issue.) So I told them about it, figured it was a one off deal. Send me another one. They did. Same messed up checkering . . . this time with matte barrels. At which point I gave up. And since then, I've seen at least a couple guns Cabela's have for sale in their Gun Libraries with the same messed-up checkering.
Maybe I'm missing something. Could be two tone checkering is the latest thing.
