Had a Savage Mod.12-VLP in .204 a few years back...
Lovely to fire, accurate (once it was recrowned to fix the previous owners horrible hack-job of threading it), but at 10lb bare weight with a 26" truck axle barrel it wasn't even remotely suited to the hunting I was doing, walking the hills for rabbits/goats/wallabies.
Didn't lose any money on it at least, sold it for a more sensible sporter weight 223 which shoots just as well.
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