I'll be sure to let you know if this happens to mine. You forgot about the "cheap" scope. It will probably fall off the mount within 100 shots. Somehow I imagine some gun owners bordering on a heart attack when synthetic stocks first appeared. The horror!!! Probably a few dancing around wooden-stocked guns praying that the Great Gun God would bring down fire upon the heretics of the Synthetic Apostacy.

Ok, back on topic. I did look at a Savage 111 package gun at the time I got my 710. However, the stock on the 111 was a little smaller at the forearm and more squared off, which I didn't find as comfortable as the more rounded and a larger stock of the 710.

Some time in the next week or two, my neighbor and I are going to the range. He's got a Browning A-Bolt stainless in .308. Be interesting to shoot his and note the differences. I thought about saving up another $350 or $400 (and probably more, since I'd had to buy a scope for the A-bolt), but couldn't come up with enough reasons to spend that much on a deer rifle that I might take out in the field 20 times a year at the most. Rather spend the money on a semi-auto shotgun for clay shooting at the gun club.