Cheap / Expensive Rifles?
#1
Cheap / Expensive Rifles?
Where is the line in the sand between cheap/moderately priced rifles?
How about moderate / expensive?
under $700 cheap?
over $1500 expensive?
Is this all discretion/personal choice or is it more accepted generally where the price ranges fall?
How about moderate / expensive?
under $700 cheap?
over $1500 expensive?
Is this all discretion/personal choice or is it more accepted generally where the price ranges fall?
#3
RE: Cheap / Expensive Rifles?
I would say anything under $500 is cheap for centerfire rifles,less than $1,000 for regular "standard" factory rifles,and much over that will get you a really nice rifle-for a factory rifle.
#4
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Blissfield MI USA
Posts: 5,293
RE: Cheap / Expensive Rifles?
Depends on what your looking for. I would say 5 to 7 hundred is average right now. However you can get some really great deals for $300 or so in the Mossberg, savage and stevens models. And you can get a Howa with a hogue stock for between 4 and 5 hundred dollars.
I honestly think much over 700 bucks and your paying for a name or custom upgrades.
Paul
I honestly think much over 700 bucks and your paying for a name or custom upgrades.
Paul
#6
RE: Cheap / Expensive Rifles?
Beauty is in the eye of the beholder.
There are plenty of guns that shoot straight for cheap money.
BUT - Do you like the way they look or sound. (Sound meaning your buddies ridiculing you)
There are plenty of guns that shoot straight for cheap money.
BUT - Do you like the way they look or sound. (Sound meaning your buddies ridiculing you)
#8
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 518
RE: Cheap / Expensive Rifles?
Welp, don't get sucked up into all of the hype unless you are going to do some serious hunting like the "pros" do on those hunting shows. If you only hunt one week a year like I do then Remington SPS, Tikka T3 Lite, or a cheap but amazingly accurate Savage will do.
I own a Ruger M77 7mag and it sure is a nice looking rifle and well built but it needs some work done to it to make it as accurate as it should be for a 7 Mag. If I could do it all over again (and hope you ain't saying the same thing a few years down the road) then I would've gotten the Tikka T3 Lite.
Good luck
I own a Ruger M77 7mag and it sure is a nice looking rifle and well built but it needs some work done to it to make it as accurate as it should be for a 7 Mag. If I could do it all over again (and hope you ain't saying the same thing a few years down the road) then I would've gotten the Tikka T3 Lite.
Good luck
#9
Join Date: Dec 2006
Posts: 518
RE: Cheap / Expensive Rifles?
ORIGINAL: salukipv1
Where is the line in the sand between cheap/moderately priced rifles?
How about moderate / expensive?
under $700 cheap?
over $1500 expensive?
Is this all discretion/personal choice or is it more accepted generally where the price ranges fall?
Where is the line in the sand between cheap/moderately priced rifles?
How about moderate / expensive?
under $700 cheap?
over $1500 expensive?
Is this all discretion/personal choice or is it more accepted generally where the price ranges fall?
#10
RE: Cheap / Expensive Rifles?
M77 man,what all needs to be done? Bedding? hand lapping? Trigger? I'm pretty sure I could walk you thru whatever needs to be done if you want. Neil
[quote]ORIGINAL: M77man
I own a Ruger M77 7mag and it sure is a nice looking rifle and well built but it needs some work done to it to make it as accurate as it should be for a 7 Mag.
[quote]ORIGINAL: M77man
I own a Ruger M77 7mag and it sure is a nice looking rifle and well built but it needs some work done to it to make it as accurate as it should be for a 7 Mag.