Rost495, your experience definitely trumps internet conjecture. If you had to purchase a rifle, what would you choose based on price range? Say < 800, 800-1200, > 1200.
Sorry I can't answer. I wouldn't buy a rifle. I still have probably another 15 lowers somewhere in the safe.
I don't care what lower. I don't care what upper.
I do care what trigger, RRA Varmint for most non competition applications, yes I may even have to tune it a bit. Beyond that its going to Geiselle, Millazo or such.
Barrel I care very much about. If I care about barrel life I go cut only... buttons do NOT last as long.
Make mine floated. You pick how.
Give me an A1 or A2 stock, I've shot standard stocks so many years in competion, I need nothing else.
And a good set of internals... brand I could care less about, quality yes, likely why I've tried to buy all my LPK from White Oak, sans teh triggers....IE I"mnot paying for a mil spec crap trigger.
Any other bells and whistles are up to you. I can do just about anything I want with the above, and if I don't kill or win, its me, not the gun.
IF I were to buy guns just for.... I"d buy whatever is cheapest, and just go through the internals... a cheap gun with a newBCG and new LPK is still going to be cheaper than one of the brand name ones generally.
All of that said, if forced into a corner, I'd buy a colt first, trash the trigger for sure, and expect 1.25 or so MOA. And I might even be surprised.... this if I was forced to buy a gun I expected to not have to work on at all.
