Originally Posted by Old_Crab
Originally Posted by bigswede358
Go hit up the pawn shops. Who knows what kind of bargain you might find.
Originally Posted by bigswede358
Go hit up the pawn shops. Who knows what kind of bargain you might find.


Agree that good buys exist there, but feel my friend should buy "new" to get the warranty... He can't afford getting a used rifle at a good price and then having to re-barrel or have to rework the feeding system.


I've only bought one rifle that had a lemon for a barrel, and it happened to be a brand new Stevens 200 in .243. It fouled terribly and lost accuracy in about 20-25 rounds from a clean barrel, it's now a .250-3000. I'd have missed out on a lot of great rifles if I had passed up used rifles I've found. I've never had a .30-06 hunting rifle that I picked up used ever have a shot out barrel or feeding problems.