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<blockquote data-quote="429421Cowboy" data-source="post: 802690" data-attributes="member: 54332"><p>IMHO, in this day and age, it is easy to get an excelent starting point for a LR rig in the $400-500 especially if you are willing to shop around and/or look at used guns. Then as was said, incremental steps towards your dream rifle are possible as you save up the money.</p><p>By the same hand, (again, just my opinion) it is hard to spend TOO much on a scope, you can dang near start from scratch with your rifle if you so much as don't like the way it looked at you, but for a scope you have to live with what you got. I'd say spend the sheckel on the best scope you can afford, and worry less about the rifle. </p><p>My 7mm is a SPS that still has the stock tube on it right now, and it is a 700 yard hunting rifle. I make improvements as i have the time and money, but as a stock rifle it still shot well before i started working with it. A Savage is also a GREAT place to start for a LR gun, I have setup two in the last year, and been very impressed. A $499 M111, and a $250 Nikon Buckmaster makes an instant poor mans 500 yard elk rifle right off the bat, which to me is very respectable for the money involved.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="429421Cowboy, post: 802690, member: 54332"] IMHO, in this day and age, it is easy to get an excelent starting point for a LR rig in the $400-500 especially if you are willing to shop around and/or look at used guns. Then as was said, incremental steps towards your dream rifle are possible as you save up the money. By the same hand, (again, just my opinion) it is hard to spend TOO much on a scope, you can dang near start from scratch with your rifle if you so much as don't like the way it looked at you, but for a scope you have to live with what you got. I'd say spend the sheckel on the best scope you can afford, and worry less about the rifle. My 7mm is a SPS that still has the stock tube on it right now, and it is a 700 yard hunting rifle. I make improvements as i have the time and money, but as a stock rifle it still shot well before i started working with it. A Savage is also a GREAT place to start for a LR gun, I have setup two in the last year, and been very impressed. A $499 M111, and a $250 Nikon Buckmaster makes an instant poor mans 500 yard elk rifle right off the bat, which to me is very respectable for the money involved. [/QUOTE]
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