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Get a Savage.
You will be much happier.
Friend has the Ruger you speak of and my Savage outshoots it consistently.
Just my .02
Friend has the Ruger you speak of and my Savage outshoots it consistently.
I have the Ruger target 17 HMR and had a Savage thumbhole stock 17 HMR. The Savage would always group better, but it was rather a clunky unrefined rifle, as most Savages are. The Ruger is a much more refined rifle, and for shooting sage rats out to about 150 yards it pretty much always connects. The nine shot rotary magazine of the Ruger is a bonus.
I have a RAR in .308 and I can shoot sub MOA groups with it. Posted photos a couple years back to prove it, even gained the respect of our own "Spitpatch" who haunts these forums.
Yeah, kind of leaning towards the Savage since it is ready to go with trigger, scope base, proper threading, and extended bolt handle.
I am aware they make in line 10 shot mags, so you are aware of how far they stick out the bottom of the stock. Notice I said rotary, which means the mag fits flush with the bottom of the stock so they don't snag on stuff or look like crap.
Sorry to hear you think a Savage is awesome right out of the box. They can shoot okay, but even my $1000 LRPV was a clunky gun. After you handle a high quality rifle you will learn exactly where the Savage falls in the pecking order of rifles.
But how can you shoot it without that hideously protruding magazine catching on brush?You seem to be more obsessed with how a rifle looks or feels, rather than how well they shoot. I've owned a number of far more expensive rimfire rifles, yet my Savage has easily out shot all of them.
Before I got my Savage, I used to shoot a Ruger 77/22 in 22 magnum It was a big heavy rimfire with a laminate stock and grey finished stainless steel. It had quite a heavy 24 inch barrel too. Despite being 3 times the cost of my Savage, it shot like bubblegum. Terrible groups. Fortunately we have a real talented gunsmith in Eugene by the name of Michael Hill, who is a wizard at doing bedding jobs on rimfire rifles. After he did a bedding job on the rifle using some custom pillars he made, and the group size shrunk 60%.
I hunted with it for a few years. But after I got my Savage 93, I stopped using it, so I ended up giving the rifle to a relative. The 17 HMR shot flatter and was thus easier to connect with small varmints in the field. And right out of the box the Savage could easily outshoot my Ruger with its custom bedding job.
Sorry dude, but I own the most awesome rimfire hunting rifle in all of Oregon. I later had Michael Hill do some work on it mainly for appearance sake, installing a handsome custom stock. I will put the accuracy of my Savage up against anyone else's 17 HMR rifle, bar none.
No doubt your rifle cannot even begin to compare with mine.
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