RE: Ruger V. Remington
Reality is it's a crap shoot when buying rifles anymore especially American made rifles. Your odds of finding a more reliable drag thru the mud rugged rifle lie with the Ruger. There are the old typical wives tales about their bad barrels but that happened when they were making tang safety guns and an outside vendor supplied their barrels, they make a much much better barrel now. Of course you'll have to get a new trigger or modfy the current and get those rings lapped.r When you find a good remington[:@]it usually is a great shooter but accuracy is only one part of the equation. If you look for a Remington try and get an older BDL SS or 80's version and if you find one with an ISS replace it with a real firing pin assemblyl. I went the SPS route a few months ago and the scope mounting screws were drilled and tapped by a blind drunk monkey. I showed it to my gunsmith and all he could say is "Thank God for Leupold Rotary Dovetail mounts" it was that bad. I think I used +20 inserts on the front and -20 inserts(Burris Signature) to get the scope aligned. It was off 18" POI at the 100 yard target that is how bad it was. When I looked thru my scope at the collimator it looked like a set of binoculars. It went back to Remington and was fixed bottom line but I don't own it anymore.