Light budget rifle opinions

I just got a Savage Lightweight Storm before the holidays, happened to find one on sale at a site sponsor. It's pretty nice. I hate the plastic trigger guard more than anything, but I bought a replacement from Boyd's which is aluminum and it is REALLY nice. I put an Athlon 2-12x42 on it, not the lightest scope, in some Warne bases I found in the clearance section of Cabela's and topped it off with some TPS lightweight rings I had kicking around.

It is *not* a heavy rifle! I could probably drop another quarter pound with Talley's and a re-scope but it's just not needed.
 
Have you looked at the old browning a-bolt I or II micro or micro Midas guns? Short barrels, short guns, pretty light, shoot well and the mags are fine once you are accustomed to them
 
hoytcanon said:
Too bad... I just sold a MINT Ruger M77 Mark II Stainless Compact in .260 Rem... would have been perfect for you. You are right in that the American rifles are definitely not up to the quality of the M77's. I have a few Ruger M77 RLS rifles, in .243, .30/06 and .358 Win... they are compact with 18.5" barrels, but I would not consider them true light-weights.

The bottom two are .30/06 and .358.
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Pay attention "class".....................:p

I managed to stumble into a Model 7 in .308win that apparently NIB and has aged a couple of years in the box
since I've fondled it.
It was to replace my Kendallized Ruger 77 in the same ammo spitting.

Had them both out and worked the actions, studied them and put my DNA on them some more.
Suffice to say the Ruger took the cup.

One Model 7 will be on my table come April.

Old school fabricating is miles ahead of modern junk.
 
kamlooky said:
Pay attention "class".....................:p

I managed to stumble into a Model 7 in .308win that apparently NIB and has aged a couple of years in the box
since I've fondled it.
It was to replace my Kendallized Ruger 77 in the same ammo spitting.

Had them both out and worked the actions, studied them and put my DNA on them some more.
Suffice to say the Ruger took the cup.

One Model 7 will be on my table come April.

Old school fabricating is miles ahead of modern junk.
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I was asking about Ruger American and Howa rifles, not Ruger and Remington, but at least I could understand almost all of what you wrote this time.
 
Milt Dale said:
I was asking about Ruger American and Howa rifles, not Ruger and Remington, but at least I could understand almost all of what you wrote this time.
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I feel you Milt, it's tough to start a budget rifle thread and not have folks come in and tell you they're junk and to spend your money higher up the product line.
What some of these guys don't know is many of us have budget rifles that sit in the safe right next to high end factory or full custom rifles yet still enjoy shooting them.

Just some food for thought here, Gatehouse has stated numerous times he has a couple of range dedicated RAR's that have round counts in the thousands with no trouble. I have a Ranch converted to 300 HAMR that I shoot piles of subsonic and supersonic through that is approaching an honest 6000 rds with zero part failures of any kind.
These Ranch rifles are super popular stateside and with those Stanag magazines think of the gazillion rounds those guys put through them in the last five years they've been released and you hear of very little problems. The ruger precision rifle is almost identical in design and there are tonnes of those rifles out there high volume shooting in matches etc.

Here's a dirty little secret that the expensive rifles in my safe would be jealous of...the particular Ranch that I shoot most often is the smoothest bolt action I own in both one finger bolt-lift (cocking), smoothness of bolt travel and slick feeding of cartridges. This is with a factory rotary mag that center feeds. The same rifle with STANAG mags is still smooth but not quite like the rotary.
 
Sun_and_Steel_77 said:
Here's a dirty little secret that the expensive rifles in my safe would be jealous of...the particular Ranch that I shoot most often is the smoothest bolt action I own in both one finger bolt-lift (cocking), smoothness of bolt travel and slick feeding of cartridges. This is with a factory rotary mag that center feeds. The same rifle with STANAG mags is still smooth but not quite like the rotary.
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Same with the early first gen 300 BLK and its rotary mag. Nowhere near as many rounds as you have through it but its slick. No feeding issues at all. None from the 6.5CM version either.

Gotta love smooth, accurate, cheap, durable junk haha

Milt Dale said:
I was asking about Ruger American and Howa rifles
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To reitorate, besides the magazines, the Minis have been outstanding here as well.
 
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Milt Dale said:
I was asking about Ruger American and Howa rifles, not Ruger and Remington, but at least I could understand almost all of what you wrote this time.
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Milt Dale said:
I know there is lots of love for Savage here, I have not owned one in about 15 years and it is still too soon.
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And yet you bring in the "Savage" label so who's at fault here?

Stay on topic if you're going to toss poo around.

And I really hope you can read this plain English.
 
Thanks for the opinions on Americans and Howas, I found an American Predator in 6.5 Creed. and it seems good, the bonus is I have a few magazines from my Gunsite Scout that can be shared.
 
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