Looking around, shopping and taking your time can yield a new/new-ish rifle for a bit less than MSRP, but you have to jump when the deal is there. The most I've paid for any of my MkV's is $999 for my Deluxe in 7-08 NIB. Granted it was a factory second, due to a mistake in the checkering .... I can live with it, unless I point it out most can't notice.
< 1" with several different factory loads with nothing other than a trigger tweak to 2.5#. FX-III 6x atop in Talley LW's well less than 8#'s sans sling and boolits. If I was a hunter worth half a schitt I'd need little else and my ark would be full ...... Luckily for mother nature, I'm a lousy hunter
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