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Ruger American Ranch or Predator or Savage axis or axis 2.
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Pretty impressed with the ruger Americans. I can see why they're the top-selling bolt action, year after year.
My ruger American, bought used for $100, scoped with a 2-7x33 redfield, is 1/10 the price of my dedicated hunting rifle.
I always liked my budget bolt-guns to be in 223, 308 or 30-06.
Just adds to the value of the whole thing, as I'm always stocked with gobs of free range-rubbish brass.
I've experienced jams with both the rotary and updated flush mags. Both a cheap design and a bummer.
With boyds making an all-metal ai kit, at least there's a cheap fix.
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Not sure if you can call them economical, but have 2 LH zastavas a 6.5 swede an 7.62x39 msrp 800 CDN bought them used for $330 each One of thses days I'd want to try a ruger american to see how it compares, did shoot a friends 450 bushmaster and liked the lower recoil. Thinking it would make a good truck/scout type gun with irons a QD rings?
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This is the time of year to hit the used rifle racks at pawn shops and gun stores. I’m not afraid of a decent used SS bolt gun at a fair price. Make mine a 700, 1500/Vanguard, 77, or American, depending on chambering and price. I'd take a used 700, Model 70, or Ruger 77 variant over any of the new economy rifles any day. Okie John What he said. I did the Ruger American thing. Junk. Accurate junk, but junk nonetheless. I've also done the cheap Salvage thing. Same story!
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My wife has a Savage Axis in 7-08. After I got the trigger worked on, it was no trick at all to get a 140 accubond to print 1" or less. Pulled it out last fall and the first shot was exactly 2.5" high and dead center, right where it should be. I hate the flimsy stock and they are ugly as sin but she likes it. I think the Axis mag is 10X better then the American's.
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My wife has a Savage Axis in 7-08. After I got the trigger worked on, it was no trick at all to get a 140 accubond to print 1" or less. Pulled it out last fall and the first shot was exactly 2.5" high and dead center, right where it should be. I hate the flimsy stock and they are ugly as sin but she likes it. I think the Axis mag is 10X better then the American's. Really, the Axis mag better? Neither suits me.
Dog I rescued in January
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I said better, not great I have never had an axis mag fall apart just putting a new rifle together out of the box....can't say the same about the American.
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I sighted one in for a friend, a 25-06. What a shooter. The mag was hard to seat and hard to remove.
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_______________________________________________________ An 8 dollar driveway boy living in a T-111 shack
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Hit the used racks and see what shows up.
I like the older savage and Stevens 110 actions. Then you can do what you want with it.
They're getting harder to find cheap though.
-Jake
Small Game, Deer, Turkey, Bear, Elk....It's what's for dinner.
If you know how many guns you own... you don't own enough.
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Bwinters, you are an accomplished hunter and you know what works for you. I would hold out for a real deal on that favorite rifle, or an M700 in 223, 6.5 Creed, or 308. If i found a real deal on an M700 in a different chambering, i'd go for it if relatively inexpensive factory loads are available (such as 6.5 Swede, 7 Mauser, 30-06) from Prvi, etc as backup to my own reloads... i think you will be happier in the long run ...
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D - I think you're on to something Got a lead on a Kimber Hunter......
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