I think if you can find them for a good price, they are worth the bump in price over the standard blued steel heavy-barrel 700 .308 rifles. Some like the stocks, some do not. I am in the "do not" crowd. But they fetch about $225-250 online, which helps with the cost of an alternative stock. The only other possible downside is the typical mile-long Remington .308 throat, but most examples seem to shoot well in spite of it.

I bought a used 24" model last year, had it cut back to 22" and bead blasted dull, and put it in one of Mag-Pul's ugly 700 DBM stocks. I also swapped in an old-style SS trigger. It's not a picky rifle and it is easy to shoot. At the end of the day, it's an SS 700 with maybe better than average accuracy.

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Only pic I have was when we popped a really big freezer-doe at the end of last season. This rifle likes 168gr Ballistic Tips and 155gr Scenars pretty well.

Now with even more aplomb