Thank you, John, for that fine range report. It sounds like that Covert of yours will digest whatever you feed it.
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And I know what you mean about cleaning the Savage. One of my "Crufflers" is this Fabrique Nationale Browning Model 1922 (7.65 mm) that was issued to the German Luftwaffe in WWII. It's a real "monkey puzzle" to clean. I like to think of it as something JMB dreamed up in his spare time to see how complicated he could make a handgun.
(http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y30/RichardS/fn-browning191132acp.jpg)