I wasn't going for beauty, just function, so I got mine a savage in 243. I lopped the stock off and when he was bigger, put an adult stock and a 308 Win barrel on it.

He had 3 or 4 kills with the 243, and killed a huge cow elk with it in 308 with a 150 partition.


“Live free or die. Death is not the worst of evils.” - General
John Stark.