ORIGINAL: dway87
Well it kills deer so I would guess it would be a good gun right? I don't care about the stock and if it feels like a "toy". Maybe in a year or two it will become the garbage that yall say it is. I do agree it's a cheap gun and do wish I got a better one. Oh well. I got my .30-30 so I am not too too worried. I am not trying to argue so please don't take this offensive.
If the .270 and 30.06 are semi reliable in the 710 then I would imagine that the .243 would be even more reliable since it puts considerably less load on the components. Only a percentage of the people out there that own the 710's have had problems with them and most of them where the ones who bought the gun in its first couple of years. It is not a gun that you would want to buy if you shoot several rounds every day, but for the guy who only shoots a box of shells a year it is a great gun. One of the reasons that I bought mine that I dont think that I mentioned before is that it fits me very well. I have had 2 shoulder surgeries and cannot take the pounding from a rifle like I used to and some guns just dont fit me well at all, but the 710 does and it works for me.