The 340 was made to capture a particular target market.

In this regard it was very successful. Consumers then and collectors now that appreciate utility find them interesting. Collectors now that appreciate quality and craftsmanship do not. One of the interesting things to me about the history of Savage gun making is that they found a way to make a chair for every ass.

There ain't no wrong or right because we are all in it for different reasons.

Whatever is on the business end of the lead winds up just as dead regardless of what the owner paid for the rifle.

"You cannot invade mainland America. There would be a rifle behind every blade of grass"
~Admiral Yamamoto~

When the people fear their government, there is tyranny; when the government fears the people, there is liberty. ~Thomas Jefferson~