I had the .223 before I traded up, and two dozen woodchucks wouldn't be any deader with anything else..

and after I fixed the ejector, it was a pretty decent little rifle

tell ya what, it DID teach me a lot about handloading the .223
nothing factory shot better than 1.5 moa...
it took about a dozen different load/bullet combos, but when I sold it, I gave the guy a hundred rounds of handloads and the recipe, and shot a nickle-sized group with it, with him watching...