Was speaking with a local guy I know... retired real estate guy..
He likes to play a lot with lead cast bullets in all sorts of calibers, especially odd ball stuff..
He typically plays with Stevens 200s, basically because they are cheap, and being an hobby machinist, he does most of his stuff at home..
Ben just had picked up one of the Savage Edges from Walmart recently, trying it strictly for the price...
He got one in a 308.... and has said he swapped a couple of barrels on it before he even shot the 308 barrel, just to see how the action compared with the 200..
He was indicating that the way the action is, he said the Edge was even better to do barrel changes on, because the action turned out to be much stiffer...
The 308 barrel he was shooting today was doing 200 grain Lead Cast bullets with a gas check at about 1900 fps... surprisingly they did a pretty good job at 100 yds...
after he wrapped up, he was over to a gunsmith buddy tho to tweek the trigger...
who'd a thunk it?
some folks are pretty comfortable with a gun that shoots good, you can bang it around, and not worry about it..
or play with it where you can swap barrels around all summer and then come fall hunting season, find a buyer for it for $150 to $175... so it only cost ya $75 to $100 to burn a barrel all summer...
