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well said spitpacth.google that mookie!
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1" out of the box, eh? That's some impressive stuff. I did like my savage that I probably shouldn't have sold. Hmmm...... maybe I should stick with savage. I am 1/64 indian....er.....native american
Does that mean that the skin on your big toe is slightly darker than the rest of you?
If you have to have a new gun, the recommendations for the Savage and Marlins are good.
But if you shop, you should be able to find a nice used Rem 700 in the $350-400 range. Heckuva lot better gun.
Savage actions are the premier action to be chosen for a benchrest rifle if one cannot afford a custom "built-from-the-ground-up" benchrest action.
Savage actions were the absolute predominate action in benchrest competition prior to there being any custom benchrest actions. They continue to hold their own and sweep top awards even against the custom stuff.
Savage actions are the most popular action chosen by customers and recommended by gunsmiths/gunbuilders for accuracy when building a custom gun. Indeed, there are many custom gun builders who are reluctant or even refuse to use anything else for their platform.
Savage actions are a reference point for nearly all of the custom "house brand" bolt actions produced by action builders in America today: i.e.: Montana, etc. These builders take the best features of the Savage action Winchester, Springfield and the Mauser, and construct actions with the best of all features from each.
The military has chosen the Savage action as its platform for sniper weaponry since the Vietnam war.
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All the above is Bizzarro Speak. On planet earth, in order to be comprehended, you are required to insert Remington everywhere you see Savage.
Talk to coctailer..he has the hookup there i believe. You can get an older model wood stock....or get the new model centerfeed with accutrigger in a sturdy plastic stock. And get yourself a really nice wood stock from SSS.
So 44mag can you give me a model number to look up online? Which combo was it that you got. I can almost see my gift to myself now
Maybe I'm just a traditionalist but I don't like synthetic stocks. Of course that's what I have on my ar but that the way those are supposed to be. I feel like a bolt action rifle deserves a pretty wood stock!
I didn't mean to denigrate the 700. My personal experience with them has them batting about .500. The first I shot was unbelievably accurate! But it had a little work done to it by the Marine Corps Marksmanship Unit, so that may be an unfair example. The one I currently own is a Wally-World special, $500 approximately. And as stated before, I personally can't get it to shoot very well. I went through the "barrel break-in" procedure, because there are opposing views on it, I figured it couldn't hurt to try it. Don't think it helped. My 110 in .270 has 8-900 rounds through it with only 2 problems, and it still shoots fine to 200 meters. My 111 in 7mm has only 120 rounds through it, with no problems. On the Savages, I didn't do the break-in procedures. For the .270, I didn't know about it; and on the 7mm, I went with the opinion that it isn't needed. Only time will tell if I did the right thing with the 7mm.
I don't have the long-term experience with bolt rifles that Spitpatch does, so I don't qualify as an expert. But he said that "For the average guy that wants a good-shooting gun out of the box......" what would be the point beyond that? I guess I don't understand the next line "Now, later, when you want to get serious....." What does that mean? To be clear, I'm NOT trying to be rude, I don't have the experience you do Spit, so help me out here. Thanks!!
Buy the gun, then take it completely apart, throw most of it away (or sell trade ect.). Order a blank barrel from hart or Douglass or the like. Maybe a Jewel trigger. H-S- precision stock. Send the action out for truing and blueprinting. Maybe custom cerakote.
Really good smith to put it all together. Chamber for some odd wildcat cartridge so that you'll have to but $400 set of RCBS custom die to load it all up. Forgot the barrel fluting, custom brake or threaded end for suppressor. Oh and the light weight firing pin and spring kit.
Something like that.
I generally do it with mausers or P1917 actions.