Kitchen_Duty
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I am a hard spot. I basically must decide if I want to buy a Thomson Center Encore or a Savage (preferably Stevens) Bolt action rifle.
Both are highly customizable and both have their reasons. This would be my second high powered rifle, my other is a marlin 336 30-30.
I would like to use it for harvesting game but with the potential of destroying paper at 300-400 yards. Benchrest competition would be fun if I had the patient skills of that kind of shooter but I don't know if I do. Please help.
And if you answer: other, please tell me why that is so much better than these two. My limit would be $600 (not including optics). I know the stevens is significantly less but to buy a trigger, new stock, yatta yatta, would run me close to that number. And no, I don't care about the barrel nut.
-Kitchen_Duty
Both are highly customizable and both have their reasons. This would be my second high powered rifle, my other is a marlin 336 30-30.
I would like to use it for harvesting game but with the potential of destroying paper at 300-400 yards. Benchrest competition would be fun if I had the patient skills of that kind of shooter but I don't know if I do. Please help.
And if you answer: other, please tell me why that is so much better than these two. My limit would be $600 (not including optics). I know the stevens is significantly less but to buy a trigger, new stock, yatta yatta, would run me close to that number. And no, I don't care about the barrel nut.
-Kitchen_Duty