Which one you prefer ?
- Thread starter eclipse71
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Some of us are insane I guess......
I'd rather bush beat a Savage, than worry about a Supergrade
So you are offered only one of those two guns... and you choose the Savage because you don't want to scratch the Supergrade???
I have one word for you; Tru-Oil.
Win Supergrade by a Country Mile for Sure ! RJ
I don't care for the look of stainless steel or of laminated stocks. The Winchester is much better looking to my eye, but I wouldn't keep either of them. They belong with someone who likes them better than I would.
I work my hunting rifles pretty hard, it's not so much the stock I worry about, it's the ultra deep luster blued finish of the supergrade. Hunting the thick West Coast brush, and hopping in and out of the truck, the stainless/detach mag is a no brainer (for me).
To each their own...
I have never understood the "I don't want to scratch it" mentality... wood can be refinished and metal can be reblued... but there will be a lot of miles under its belt before that is necessary... guns are for shooting... and they should go wherever the shooting is. If it is wet, no problem, dry off, uncase to room temperature and clean it with a light gun oil... water won't hurt it... for "bush hunting" accuracy, I wouldn't worry about the stock "swelling" and throwing off POI.
To cure yourself of this "I don't want to hunt it" disease, take your most expensive, prettiest, most perfect gun, turn it over a make a minute scratch on the underside of the forearm... now you can actually shoot and enjoy your guns as they were designed to be enjoyed.
If you're hunting the WET Coast of Canada ....stainless and laminate makes sense, stainless and synthetic, even better. At times its not just raining on your gun, its more like immersing your rifle in a bath tub for hours on end. Not something that I would want to subject that super grade to!
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- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
Hunting in difficult conditions is exactly what I would choose the Super Grade for. A tree doesn't mind getting wet, and properly cared for steel shrugs off rain, or for that matter getting submerged in a lake when the canoe capsizes. Prior to about 1980, hunting rifles came with wood stocks and bluing protected the steel from the elements, and the access we now have to stocks made out of plywood, plastic, or fiberglass, and stainless rather than chrome-moly doesn't minimize the suitability of traditionally manufactured firearms for use outdoors. A good rifle shouldn't be treated like a club, but neither does it need to be babied in the field.
The OP is asking which one do you think looks better not which one you'd like to take home as I understand it. I think the Winnie looks better but although neither are my cup of tea. Don't like the looks of most laminate stocks on stainless and I'm not a fan of walnut and blue for a bolt action hunting rifle. If someone gave me a choice of taking one home I'd pick the Winny. And sell it 
btw no Salvage prejudice here I happen to own a savage 16 and I think it looks better with the factory accustock, jmo. Not that its a rifle that I put on a pedestal for looks or anything else just a decent affordable all weather rifle that happens to shoot lights out. Its what I'm packing right now for blacktail its a 260 with a Leupy 3 on it.
btw no Salvage prejudice here I happen to own a savage 16 and I think it looks better with the factory accustock, jmo. Not that its a rifle that I put on a pedestal for looks or anything else just a decent affordable all weather rifle that happens to shoot lights out. Its what I'm packing right now for blacktail its a 260 with a Leupy 3 on it.
Hmmmm, we have another thing in common along with single shot rifles...
