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I have a Tikka, and would not trade it for accuracy. I have a #1, though not in 30-06, and it will also keep its place in my safe.

For the $, hard to beat the Tikka in walnut blue. Shucks, if there is so much dust on your wallet that you had to post twice about blowing it off buy a #1 AND a Tikka.

Rick: SSSSSSHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!! quiet please!

My vote for sure would be a M70 FW.Plenty of them out there.Get a pre64 if you wanna spend a bit more money. Even at current prices they are cheap in the long run.

I was cruising a gun show last week end and "bumped into" a pre 64 standard in 30/06, fair wood, great metal.Priced about right so I bought it.

Ran to the range after slapping on a 2.5-8x Leup w/B&C, and tightening the screws.The load was the 150 AB with 60-H4350; I sat there and watched this old rifle, with no coddling,pile 7 of 9 shots into a ragged hole that just kept getting a bit larger @100 yards; there were two flyers that "opened" the group to about 1 1/2".

This makes the umpteenth pre 64 I've seen perform like that. My FW will behave pretty much the same in a Bansner stock.They are worth the dough IMHO.

To the shootist and bob in NH, there is more dust on my wallet than money in it HA!! As to all the Model 70 fans and Tikka fans...I have one of each. My Tikka is in 6.5 Swede and shoots great with about any load I put through it..definately love the Tikka's and would highly recommend them...I have a Model Fwt in 257 Robts that was my main deer and antelope gun for a long time and never needed more than one round on the 10 or so deer and goats I put my sights on.So even though I agree with both of thoses being good/safe choices...I'm wantin to try something different to me anyways.......thanks for all the input and glad to see the No1 Ruger fans starting to come out of the woodwork

With the "blue steel and walnut" requirement the choices for me would be easy. The 700 CDl or Savage Classic. Both are American made and should prove to be very accurate. I'd try to find a place that stocked them both so you could size them up. Either one would be a great gun.

2Seventy

Nick: What makes you happy is the one to use.We all have our preferences and in truth they all work pretty damn good! It is the man behind the rifle more than anything else that gets the results.

Browing safari model circa:1964 30-06 mauser action. True calssic rifle. approx $1200
Sako Finnbear (pre-garcia; 1972): 30-06 accurate and smoth action. $800
Remington old ADL: A series or learlier. Better steel. Hard to beat an old remington. $400
All can be had at Gunbroker.com
put a Leupold VXIII 2.5x8x36mm and you have the perfect rifle.
New rifles are not that interesting. I like taking one that has been around for a while and giving it a new life.

A Husqvarna Crown 3000 is a nice .30-06 - not too classic, not too modern, very handsome and a good shooter.

Nothing wrong with the Ruger Mark II's or the Hawkeye. Good shooters and a good value.

I agree with the idea of the higgins or an FN. They are awfully nice. But I like the hawkey better than any ogf the other new ones !
...tj3006

What about a Cooper?

For load development, the trigger on the CZ, or Savage accu-trigger is hard to beat. Both come in wood / blued versions.

Nooooo, No. 1A is 7.5# and they shot great.

If stainless/laminated, Remington's 700 LSS Mountain Rifle.

If blued CM/walnut, a Husqvarna with the 8000/9000 series action.

Jeff

yeah, cooper ... guaranteed accuracy and great wood,fit, and finish

Ain't that the truth and a lot of fun. I might add that the 1950's FN's and Husky's. They can be had for between 150 and 300 depending on the condiction. The last one I bought was for $200 in FN 30-06 Improved aka 270 Win. I took it to the rqange and shot as is and it shot 1.5" groups. I cleaned the barrel, polished the chamber and it shot 1" groups. I then refinished the stock glass beded the action and 2" of the barrel and floated the rest of the barrel, it then shot .5" groups.

What not to like about these old rifles?

I've never felt a tweaked Accu-trigger, so I am just going by how they feel at the gunshop... but that said, a regular M700 trigger is pretty easily adjustable to being superior to an Accutrigger IMHO.

If the Accutrigger tweaks up to be better than what I've felt then I could be wrong.

-jeff

An accutrigger doesn't require disassembly of either gun or wallet to tweak! That's the biggest difference, to me, between the Savage and Rem 700 triggers.

The Accutrigger is pretty decent right on the rack 'tis true.

ARE they adjustable?

The M700 trigger is not hard to adjust, though...

-jeff

The accutrigger is adjustable via a hex key, much easier than the Remington trigger.