Savage 110 High Country 270 review

The 110 High Country comes in 11 different calibers ranging from .243 Winchester to .300 Win. Mag., including the 6.5 Creedmoor, 6.5 PRC, .270 Win, .280 Ackley Improved, 7mm-08 Rem, 7mm Rem. Mag., .308 Win, .30-06, and .300 WSM. This spectrum covers just about everything you’d want to hunt in North America and most of what you’d be after abroad. All barrel lengths come in either 22 or 24″ trim, depending on caliber. To be honest, I wanted to try several of these options but finally settled on the .308 Win.

For starters, the TrueTimber camo is a great pattern and pleasing to the eye. The burnt-bronze PVD-coated barrel, receiver, bolt handle, triggerguard and magazine all blend perfectly with the camo and prove visually appealing.

There are many excellent features of the 110 High Country that stand out. The action is secured three-dimensionally along the entire length within the AccuStock internal chassis. The 3-position safety is located directly behind the bolt and can be operated nicely with the thumb of your shooting hand. The receiver is drilled and tapped for scope mounting. A detachable 4-round magazine can be removed easily with the textured magazine release and there’s no hassle with re-inserting the magazine.

The synthetic stock features overmolded surfaces around the grip and forend areas. This non-slip surface will be appreciated in wet conditions or when your hands are sweaty. Aesthetically speaking, I liked the looks of the spiral-fluted bolt and barrel. The bolt knob is large and finely checkered on the top. Like other 110 rifles, the High Country features a floating bolt head and barrel nut to ensure reliable headspacing — which enhances accuracy. My .308 test rifle — wearing a 22″ barrel — comes with a threaded muzzle ready for accessories such as a muzzlebrake or suppressor. The diameter at the muzzle was 0.750″. Magnum calibers come with a ’brake included. Before I scoped it, my particular rifle tipped the scales at a tad over 8 lbs.

The 110 High Country features Savage’s user-adjustable AccuTrigger — no more trips to the gunsmith for an expensive trigger job. The trigger on my test gun broke cleanly at 3 lbs. and could be adjusted down to 2.5 lbs. The great trigger is complimented by Savage’s AccuFit stock system allowing the shooter to customize the rifle’s comb height and length of pull for the perfect cheek placement when looking through a scope. Each 110 High Country comes with easy-to-replace comb inserts and LOP spacers. If you have a Phillips screwdriver, you’re in business. You’ll never have to worry again about the rifle fitting you properly as you try to find your target in the scope.

The Savage Model 110 is the oldest continuously-manufactured bolt-action rifle in the USA. Call something a ‘High Country’ and it means this is a the version that breaks new borders, that’s used by pioneers and true outdoorsmen. North Carolinans have a western part of their state they call the High Country, and it’s the nickname for the Colorado Plateau. Chevrolet makes a non-nonsense version of its Silverado model called ‘High Country’.

Savage says its High Country version is built to “maximise accuracy”. Central to this is the AccuStock system, explains Rob Dunlea-Jones. “The receiver sits into Savage’s AccuStock chassis system, the concept being you’ve got an aluminium chassis running throughout the entire gun which gives that rigidity and stability that you need.”

Rob works for Edgar Brothers, which imports the rifle to the UK.

The 110 High Country come with another Savage innovation – the AccuTrigger – a fully-adjustable system to get the pull you want that’s also a safety feature.

“With AccuTrigger, as well as being able to adjust it as well for pressure, the safety feature that’s built in on this trigger means that it is pretty much drop safe and drop test safe as well,” says Rob. “The safety system on the trigger is a superb.”

Besides being accurate, it’s also robust, with a 2-4 micron PVD coating on the barrels ensuring “durability out in the field”, Rob says. PVD coating is used on military small arms to protect them in the field.

At the end of the barrel is a 5/8-24 thread for attachments. The gun also comes with a detachable magazine and comes in wide selection of calibres.

Additional height combs and butt shims mean the gun can be modified to fit shooters of most sizes.

The Model 110 series is a range of Savage centrefire rifles. Savages are better known as rimfire rifles, and are in the top ten brands owned by Fieldsports Channel viewers.

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