Well, several years ago, i would have agreed with you FL/GA and bareback. I then started to shoot with a crowd. I then started to notice, I didn' t have that cool sako type extractor on my 700' s. I started to notice that my barrel had a hard time staying freefloated in my wood stocked 700' s. I then went on several big game hunts and noticed that my safety wouldn' t hold my bolt down on my 700 and sometimes I would have opened the bolt by accident with black spruce peices getting into my action.

I then noticed that I have to pay a fortune in getting my 700' s pillar bedded. Then started noticing my crown out of round. Then as of late, noticed, my barrels were rougher than the crowd. I now buy browning, and don' t worry about it anymore.