Oops. I don't know where I got recepticle. I guess I was thinking a recepticle for your eye or something.

I went and tried out some more rifles this afternoon and am even more confused. The Remington 700 SPS rifles just look too cheap and they didn't have the same feel as the BDL did either. I found some Remington 700 BDL rifles with a synthetic stock and they much felt better than the SPS to me. The blue barreled BDL's weren't that bad at just $440 with a 22" barrel but the SS BDL was $625 with a 24" barrel. What difference would the longer barrel make?

The rifle that felt the best this time around was the Browning A-Bolt in black with a wood stock. The 45 degree bolt was pretty neat also. The action on the Browning felt the best out of all of them even though it just had the 45 degree bolt. The action on the SPS was very stiff.

I looked at prices on ammo as well and the 7mm Mag ammo is really only about $6 - $7 a box more. Off the shelf the choices were 140, 150, 160 and 165 grain on the 7mm and 150, 165 and 180 on the .30-06. My heart says 7mm Mag, my brain says .30-06.

I really liked the Browing A-Bolt with the wood stock. It was $599 at Academy. The Remington BDL's were at my local rifle range.

5 pages of posts and I'm almost back to where I started. [&:]