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res308 last won the day on April 16 2017

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    Over Yonder (Erin, TN)
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    Hunting, fishing, hiking, home gunsmithing, camping
  • Occupation
    Police Officer

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    Shoot'n iron

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  1. Good to know. I'll wipe Savage off my list. I guess there's a good reason that, on some of the more snobbish forums, I'm seeing Savage referred to as "Salvage." I don't intend to ever get into any of the long range competition, and I like things to be muti-purpose, hence the need for an all around rifle.
  2. Rob, since this is about a general purpose rifle, I'm surprised you haven't recommended the Savage 110 Hog Hunter. Seems like there was a picture on here a while back with you holding one of those. My son has one now but I haven't tried it out yet.
  3. I forgot to mention Browning. I did have an A Bolt many years ago. Loved it but taded it off for something or other. Don't know much about the X bolt.
  4. Question: I know the Ruger American Gen II is supposed to be smoother. I have always heard of feeding problems with the Gen 1. Are the Gen II rifles reliable?
  5. Dang dude! Where you been? Haven't seen you on here in a while.
  6. The Ruger American gen 1 is definitely off the table. I have heard that they are quite accurate, but, like you said, I've also heard about the feeding problems. The jury is still out on the Gen II. I do care about the action. The smoothness is important to me, but most actions can be smoothed up. Most important of course is reliability in feeding and extraction, followed by accuracy. To answer your question, I haven't really settled on a budget yet, but I can't go overboard since I'm kind of "gunned out" this year already. It'd be nice to have an accurized barreled action with the smoothness of a Krag Jorgensen and the reliability I've always had from a Ruger M77 action. I might have to open up a little bit and start looking at the Tikkas and some others. And I might just revisit my options with the Ruger M77. I don't often hear "Ruger M77" and "utmost accuracy" in the same sentence, but you never know.
  7. Well I don't know if I know you, but HOWDY
  8. Right now I'm running a Ruger Gunsite Scout in .308. It has the 16" barrel on it with a Leupold Scout scope. If it had the 18" barrel I probably wouldn't be looking around because I love the Ruger M77 action. I'm thinking about finding a .308 bolt gun in a longer barrel length that still uses the AICS pattern magazines. Something reasonable. .308 is not exactly a barrel burner, so I want a little more barrel length for the sake of velocity. I love the scout in the woods, but I'd like to be able to do a little longer range target shooting at some point, although any rifle will have to do double duty for target shooting and primarily for hunting. I've been looking at the Bergara rifles, but a lot of them are too heavy for lugging around in the woods all day, or too expensive, or both. I've been eying the new Remington 700 Magpul Enhanced, but I don't know if Remington's quality has climbed back up out of the gutter or not. I've also been checking out the Savage 110 Tactical. And, somebody recommended the Ruger American Gen II, but I have yet to handle one. I wish there was such a thing as a highly accurate rifle with a medium contour fluted barrel with backup iron sights on it (cause I'm old fashioned), but dreams don't often come true. I'm sticking with .308, or maybe .30-06, because I don't want to have to go through the trouble and expense of re-tooling everything for a different caliber. Otherwise I would LOVE to go back to a .270. Any suggestions?
  9. Yeah I'm probably going to feel like a doofus if I go through with this.

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