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What are the differences between these two rifles?

Montana has a $500 Kevlar stock with a blind magazine.

Hunter has injection molded stock with removable magazine. Barreled action is the same. The stock on a Montana is as good as they come IMO. They're thin in the belly and carry very well being a blind magazine.

I can't see going Hunter when one of the best attributes of the Montana is the stock.

Thank you.

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For the price and weight without the better stock,I would be looking at a Tikka Superlight instead of the Hunter.

I handled the Hunter, and it wasn't bad at all. If prices settle down, or used ones hit the market, I'll get one in 308. Knowing me, if I do a hunt where I want the 308 and ounces count, I'd probably swap stocks with a Montana I have and lighten it up a bit. Sounds like a Hunter will drop right in a Montana stock.

Either makes a fine rifle.

But the Montana is one of the best guns made, IMO.

When you need one, that is.

Are the feed rails the same between the two? I thought there was something different there.

I thought I read that SAS had dropped a Hunter into a Montana stock and all was good.

I was thinking that there was a difference since one is blind mag and the other box mag.

It will.

Same/same.

So just to clarify, the blind magazine of the Montana stock accepts the Hunters magazine box, spring and follower without modifications?

The Hunter is DBM.

As Reminton goes, you can't ADL a DBM, but you can DBM an ADL but not with Remmie DBM parts.


Another reason blind mags rule for me.

No. Accepts the barreled action. Need to use the Montana's internals.