Some Rugers, nothing cheap feeling to me.
Synthetic Stocked Rifle That Doesn't Look/Feel Cheap
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The Browning and the Vanguard are very accurate rifles, imported from Japan, but made at separate facilities? At any rate very accurate usually
I had a Patriot and I want to love it, but in the end the only way I can describe the bedding design on those is the word "incomplete"
BigBL87
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It is youth/compact, but it comes with a spacer which you put on which will lengthen the LOP to 13.625" (which I believe is the same as their standard model). That still may be too short for you, to be fair, or you may just not like the look of having a spacer. I'm 6'5" and it would be on the short side but manageable. In any event, if it doesn't appeal to you I wouldn't consider it. Always better to get a rifle you feel good about.
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DocRock
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It's how they hit the price point with an otherwise very good rifle. Recently purchased one in 375 Ruger and that flexy lightweight stock wasn't going to cut it. I glass bedded the whole forend back to the recoil lug and added a pound or so of lead shot. Now perfect. You can do the same without adding the weight. I used a Brownell Accriglass bedding kit. Remarkably straightforward.
Did you bed the mag insert to the stock
DocRock
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No. Only the forend back to the recoil lug. There's pics in a thread entitled "375 Ruger".
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jmorris
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I have a sub-moa Weatherby that would be my first thought, I paid $375 for it used but it feels and shoots better than most for that kind of money. It beats the cheap 700’s with the flimsy plastic stocks. That said, I also got a used 700 LTR that beats it in feel and accuracy.
I have a couple Savages that have impressive accuracy for the price but don’t feel the same. A little oil and use can make them a bit better and when they do the job hunting and you see how little you shoot them vs haul them around, it might not matter that much that they are and feel less expensive as long as they do the job. Not to mention you could completely destroy one in an accident and be out less money than the price of a fantastic non wood stock.
I have a couple Savages that have impressive accuracy for the price but don’t feel the same. A little oil and use can make them a bit better and when they do the job hunting and you see how little you shoot them vs haul them around, it might not matter that much that they are and feel less expensive as long as they do the job. Not to mention you could completely destroy one in an accident and be out less money than the price of a fantastic non wood stock.
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I just can’t seem to find a hunting rifle that I just love. I have several nice walnut stock rifles, but I’m always beating them to hell during hunting season. I’m knocking the stocks on ladder stands when I’m climbing up in the dark or there getting debts and dings from laying sideways across the shooting rail. I just wish I could find a synthetic rifle I love.
DocRock
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As the song goes: “If you can’t be with the one you love; love the one you’re with”.
NeroM
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Both Henry and Marlin make "all weather" models - check them out ?
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I have some tools I really like, some with more sentimental value to me than they are worth, some that are really hard to be without but I can’t say I am in love with any of them. I look at hunting rifles as tools, you can’t keep a hammer looking brand new unless you don’t drive nails with it.
I keep my “for looking at” firearms in the darkness of a safe, unless I want to look at them.
Some folks think a $3000 firearm that gets sings of use, from use, is crazy. Then they go throw a load of fire wood in the back of a $50,000 pickup..,,
NeroM
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Tried to quote #39, something fouled up.
Have a $3000 revolver; it is my primary hunting firearm, carry gun, castle protector, varmit exterminator - sleep with it at night (also my wife - but in different ways). Best firearm purchase I ever made. That said, I think a $50000 pickup is a ridiculous expense - doing fine with a $20K pickup.
Have a $3000 revolver; it is my primary hunting firearm, carry gun, castle protector, varmit exterminator - sleep with it at night (also my wife - but in different ways). Best firearm purchase I ever made. That said, I think a $50000 pickup is a ridiculous expense - doing fine with a $20K pickup.
Well they start at 50,000 then by the time the incentives are subtracted you are down to about 38,000, then you take your fancy truckand end up doing a bunch of yard/ landscaping jobs because your 14 yr. old son needs to earn money to go on Spring school trip to Washington DC. (or something like that)
I picked up a sauer xt 100 a year ago and was really impressed with the stock as well as the overall feel handling the gun. Very solid lightweight set up. Recently bought the similar m18, nice stock as well but not quite as polished as the sauer. Both shoot accurately.
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Not me. Mine was a Black Friday special with rebate and cost me $169. Wish I had bought 3.
Skylerbone
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Not yet. I’ve been far too busy loading .223 of late to pick up dies but I did the standard Core-Lokt, Federal, Hornady, etc. factory ammo test and had outstanding results with the 129gr InterLock via Hornady American Whitetail. Multiple sub-1/2” 3-shot groups and everything under an 1” @ 100 yards.
I picked up a RAP a few weeks later and while accuracy was decent the T/C edged it out with everything I tried. I’m looking at more magnification at the moment, at least something beyond the $90 3-9x it currently wears, probably another Bushnell Nitro or Prime.
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DocRock
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Some of the Savage 110 models with the Accustock can be found within that price range. Savage bolt guns have rarely been called handsome, but the Accustock neither looks nor feels cheap and the 110 is an excellent rifle.
I have several critical things to say about Savage lately. The bottom bolt release in the way of the action screw and I think it is very unhandy. The top bolt release was better. I do not like the centerfeed system, a standard stagger feed mag is just better. I have had a couple newer centerfeed actions with DBM and function was not smooth or 100% consistent. The older stocks with the pillar bedding were just fine, I have never seen an increase in accuracy over the old pillar bed stocks. I had a 110 FP in 25-06 with the old style stock which would shoot five shots inside a quarter at 100 yds. Subsequent accustock rifles did not match that. If you buy a rifle with snap on cheek pieces etc, thats what you have. Parts that just snap together with that level of fit and security, which isn't much.
Captcurt
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Of all of the ones that I have owned, and that is a lot of them, my pick is Bergara. The only downside is the weight. They are heavy. Tried the Patriot, Vanguard, American, Savage, and Kimber, but still like the Bergara. Tikka seemed alright but I only shot it a 5 or 6 times.
Olon
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+1 on the Ruger Americans. I haven't shot one, but I've handled them in the gun shop and they feel well made.
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