RE: I'd like to hear your thoughts on savage...
I've got an old J-model (22-250) with a stainless, fluted heavy barrel and a Canjar trigger. You'd EXPECT a gun like that to be accurate, and it is. My brother has an off-the shelf package Savage 270 with a Simmons 3X9. I swear by all that is Holy, I watched him make a head shot on a prairie dog at 310 paces using an off-the-shelf Winchester 160-gr soft point. One shot. We're both six foot tall, so I know that's around 300 yards. Sure, he's a helluva shot, but that weapon is incredible. Since we found the right recipe for loading 90-gr- hollowpoints, he's become a varmint assassin.