(they may not be the nicest toolsin the shed but I doubt they are "junk")
I don't own one, but they "aren't" junk, and when someone makes a statement like that "without" ever owning one or evenuseing one. Well, it makes everything else they say "suspect" too...
I know guys that have them as a "work gun" that they don't have to baby, and they shoot well and are reliable. At least you can "ajust" the rifle bbl to the shot bbl., that's more than you can do with the Savage. Of all of the Savages i've owned, "not one" of them would shoot to the same place the shot bbl diduseing the iron sights.
Drilling Man