ORIGINAL: DeerandbearhoG
As The proud owner of a savage I would never go back to shooting dirtburners again ,but to each his own. MLing isnt a hobby to me, I use my gun to wack game in slug zones and in ML sesason, its just a tool to me,so I dont "draw a line". why wouldnt someone want to carry the best, most effiecient gun they could get, when trying to fill a tag? I have absolutly no guilt for owning a more accurate, more powerful, less recoiling, cheaper shooting and much more dependable gun ,that I dont even have to clean! Besides it still takes just as long to load and its not like Im gonna take much longer shots than I could w/ a conv.ML or slug gun, so I dont see how anyone can say, its as dangerous as a centerfire which is a BS myth anyway. My savage isnt much differnet than a newer knight or TC, its just cleaner, doesnt shoot a white cloud out the barrel, and I KNOW its gonna go off,
whats wrong w/ that ?
Adeer wacking tool, that is very efficient at what it does and you can see the game when you wack it and it is shootable in Shotgun areas, who wouldn't want one?Maybe price. I guess ifSavage made a 350 Savage and marketed a lot more (like TC)you would see a lot more of them. I think we are at the end of MLer performance wtih BDC scopes, BH power and 200g pointy bullets (I shoot 180g in my 30-06), you can shoot 250 yards, but most of use back east here know we shoot most of the time under 100 yards, very seldom 150 or longer. Any inline MLer sighted in 3" high at 100 with ANY bullet can get MPBR of 170 yard, which I claim is the effective range of my Savage or any inline or standard MLer with a standard non-BDCscope. So if you got $550 and wanna get into smokeless MLing the Savage is the cheapest option,there are a couple of other options, but they are more expensive and can't beat the Savage's out of the box1.5 guarantee.
As for the Electra, it is a MLer for sure, will you be able to get parts for it in 20 years? My gut is that it won't be a seller and therefore there will be parts problems with them in 20 years, so why invest in a "maybe" when you can buy a KNOWN like an Omega or a Triumph or an Accura and know that there will be parts around in 20 years. That is my take on the Electra, if pimers were $1 each, then I think the Electra would be a hit, but primers are $5 for 100, so no incentive to go Electra.
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