One can't discount team savage, but one also has to wonder how many guns they had to pick from... Much like Ruger thinking their actions were good enough for Palma and building palma guns for the US team and finding that 2 of the 12 IIRC< were good enough in the end.
The bottom line to this, is if it shoots good enough, then the platform is good enough and personally I could care less what folks use. OTOH the 700s and the better clones and the better BR actions are PROVEN to be able to do the job... on the front side its probably cheaper in the long run to build off a proven action.. much like a douglas barrel MIGHT be good enough, but we know a Krieger will be....
