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"BTW, show me a better rifle, new or used, for the money."

I think that the Marlin XL/XS-7 is a better rifle than either the Savage Edge/Axis or Stevens 200 in terms of stock ergs and trigger for approximately the same $$. I think that it has a better stock design than the Savage 111/11FNS, the Savage rifle that it is most like, for about $100 less. For <$300, I don't know how you could do better in a new CF bolt gun than the Marlins.

That said, the Savage 110 series has been around for over 50 years, so there are lots of Savage after-market parts available. I think that Marlin could knock Savage/Stevens out of the <$300 retail CF bolt gun market if they would expend the cartridges being offered to include quick twist 223s and 22-250s in the XS-7 and the 7mm Rem Mag and 300 Win Mag in the XL-7.

JEff