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<blockquote data-quote="Trickymissfit" data-source="post: 439763" data-attributes="member: 25383"><p>I shoot Weatherbys, Savages, Marlins, some Winchesters, and one lone Remington. I have Weatherbys that are pretty in select wood, and I have Weatherbys that are a matte finish in a plastic stock. No problem with the workmanship or design. I have Savages that are just fine for anything I do and shoot better than most anything out there, but the Remington guys like to call them butt ugly. Fine with me as I never thought a Tiger tank was anything of beauty as well. I have several Marlins (including one bolt action gun), and of course the Remington folks think they're antiques and not pretty as well. Once again it's a tool and looks mean little to me. Same can be said of the Winchester lever guns I own and the one mod. 70. Funny thing is the Remington guys don't call them ugly. Then there's the one lone Remington I still own. It's no prettier than a Savage in my book, and is an engineering nightmare (sorry Bob Greanleaf but you got that one wrong). Funny thing about the Winchester Mod. 70 and the Remingtons are that you gotta work on them. You just can't take them outta the box and shoot them (admit it cause 80% of the population knows this). The Savage and the Weatherby will shoot well right outta the box 95% of the time. It is really pretty hard to improve on Weatherby factory ammo (not the Remington and Winchester junk), other than saving some money on componets. So if your a guy that shoots twenty rounds a year on two or three hunting trips, why bother? I'm the sameway with my .450, but have gotten on a 400 grain bullet kick (now that's the pun of the day!)</p><p> </p><p> So you got a Mod. 700 long action rifle. You buy a nice Pacnor barrel in something like .338 or .358 (not important). You take the whole shebang over to Joe the gunsmith. He wants a buck and a quarter to chamber and headspace it; plus the $350 you spent at Pacnor. The action, needs truing, as well as the threads. The lugs are all done at the sametime. That's a couple hundred if there's no serious problem. Then you notice the bedding's not upto par, so you have that done as well. You of course toss out the Remington recoil lug for a better one, and while at it replace the firing pin and spring (getting old), and that's gonna be another buck and a quarter. So now your adding close to $800 to the price of the rifle (assuming you have a good core), but if you don't you now have well over $1500 in it. And really don't know if it's gonna be a shooter, let alone be a safe shooter</p><p> </p><p>But it's pretty!</p><p>gary</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Trickymissfit, post: 439763, member: 25383"] I shoot Weatherbys, Savages, Marlins, some Winchesters, and one lone Remington. I have Weatherbys that are pretty in select wood, and I have Weatherbys that are a matte finish in a plastic stock. No problem with the workmanship or design. I have Savages that are just fine for anything I do and shoot better than most anything out there, but the Remington guys like to call them butt ugly. Fine with me as I never thought a Tiger tank was anything of beauty as well. I have several Marlins (including one bolt action gun), and of course the Remington folks think they're antiques and not pretty as well. Once again it's a tool and looks mean little to me. Same can be said of the Winchester lever guns I own and the one mod. 70. Funny thing is the Remington guys don't call them ugly. Then there's the one lone Remington I still own. It's no prettier than a Savage in my book, and is an engineering nightmare (sorry Bob Greanleaf but you got that one wrong). Funny thing about the Winchester Mod. 70 and the Remingtons are that you gotta work on them. You just can't take them outta the box and shoot them (admit it cause 80% of the population knows this). The Savage and the Weatherby will shoot well right outta the box 95% of the time. It is really pretty hard to improve on Weatherby factory ammo (not the Remington and Winchester junk), other than saving some money on componets. So if your a guy that shoots twenty rounds a year on two or three hunting trips, why bother? I'm the sameway with my .450, but have gotten on a 400 grain bullet kick (now that's the pun of the day!) So you got a Mod. 700 long action rifle. You buy a nice Pacnor barrel in something like .338 or .358 (not important). You take the whole shebang over to Joe the gunsmith. He wants a buck and a quarter to chamber and headspace it; plus the $350 you spent at Pacnor. The action, needs truing, as well as the threads. The lugs are all done at the sametime. That's a couple hundred if there's no serious problem. Then you notice the bedding's not upto par, so you have that done as well. You of course toss out the Remington recoil lug for a better one, and while at it replace the firing pin and spring (getting old), and that's gonna be another buck and a quarter. So now your adding close to $800 to the price of the rifle (assuming you have a good core), but if you don't you now have well over $1500 in it. And really don't know if it's gonna be a shooter, let alone be a safe shooter But it's pretty! gary [/QUOTE]
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