The wife watches those house remodeling shows on television and I've taken the same tactic with my own rifles by starting with good bones and improving what I already have. Honestly, I haven't seen a pinch of difference in how a deer falls over after I've shot them with a .30-30 or a .300 WM and anything in between. It doesn't need to be done all at once either. Swap out a Leupold to a Zeiss or a Nightforce. The mounts from a Weaver to a Conetrol. The trigger from a Walker to a Timney. The barrel to a Shilen. The stock to a Brown. The way I figure it, we don't have that long to be out rifle hunting here and what good is a safe full of other rifles if I can only use one at a time? Guaranteed that I'm going to be using a nice one when I'm out there. More than once I've read about you guys "thinning the herd" and I've got a few extras myself, but not enough for thinning just yet.
