Price Check: Savage 93R17-FV .17HMR

[zogorion]

Hello all, I just noticed the Bass Pro Shops has this rifle Savage 93R17-FV
On sale for $159.88 and with my 10% military discount, I could walk out of there for pretty cheap, I think. So what are y'alls opinions of this rifle at that price, I welcome all comments. Oh and scope reccomendations would be appreciated as well.
-Orion

 

[jrobb45]

Great price...buy it! Mines a tackdriver. I'll leave the scope advice to others.

jrobb

 

[TNT]

Buy it! At that price you can't afford not to. The Savage 17HMR are great shooting rifles after you do a little trigger work. A 3-9x40 is always a good choice for a hunting scope or if your into more bench use a higher power is the way to go.

 

[zogorion]

Darn, I was hoping you guys might talk me out of it, but it seems like I might just have to go ahead and buy the darned thing. Any others want to put in their .02?
-Orion

 

[45crittergitter]

I bought one at Bass Pro also. Synthetic stock, heavy barrel. Same price. Trigger was atrocious, the worst I've ever had, so I put in a Rifle Basix. Now it shoots great - in fact, I made my longest ever kill on a crow just today. However, the cost of the new trigger means it wasn't such a steal. I put a Tasco World Class 4-16x40 AO on it that I got from MidSouth (I think) with a factory rebate, somewhere in the neighborhood of $60. Added sling swivel studs and got a brick of ammo at BPS for less than $8/box.

 

[zogorion]

Scope possibility

OK guys, I've pretty much made up my mind to buy it, just gonna wait untill I get paid on the 15th to go pick it up. After taking everyone's advice into consideration and looking over on rimfirecentral.com, I think I'm going to get this scope for it BSA Sweet 17
I'm thinking the 3-12x40AO would serve me pretty well for this rifle. I know BSA isn't regarded as the highest of quality scopes, but i think for $100 it would be pretty ok. What do you guys think/suggest? Thanks.
-Orion