I notice on every Savage rifle post usually one will show up to bash them when someone is thinking of buying one.I agree to disagree with them but will say compare apples to apples and you won' t find a better deal than a Savage rifle for dollars spent bar none.All this gritty/sloppy bolt and ugly barrel nut talk is kinda superficial and if thats the best shot you can take(pun) have at it.Savages are reasonable,accurate to the point of making custom gun owners jealous,strong,and very trouble free.I' ve used them for almost 40 years first cause they were all I could afford and now because they shoot better than most all the others and have NEVER let me down, even once.If you take any new gun and lap the bolt into the action for a few minutes and then oil and lube the bolt and lugs and simply work it about 100 times it will smooth up to where its slicky smooth whether Savage or Remington or Winchester.I would hope a big dollar semi custom rifle would already have had this done to it for some of that extra money []you spend.The rifle I posted the above groups with cost me $550 and I' ve got $37.50 in a skim bed job so far and thats it.The bolt responded to my above mentioned treatment and is plenty smooth while it shots as good or better than guns costing many times more than it did.Looks? Well I' ll let you decide how ugly it is with this pic.