Savage guns have always been an accurate gun,just not the most stylish in some years,but they could shoot! Who really cares what a gun really looks like if it can shoot! Heck,just a few years ago,the National Skeet and Trap shooter won,with not a multi-thousand dollar gun, It was with a Mossberg Pump. So there you go!! All the whistles and bells on a gun,and engraving doesn,t make it shoot any better. vangunsmith