.22lr for under $300

Lets assume you can get a synthetic (F) for the same price as a walnut stock (G) which would you guys choose? Is the walnut stock even real wood? or is is fake plasticly wood? Does it look good or cheap?
 
From what I understand the Walnut stocks are actually made by Boyds. (If I remeber correctly, I may actually have the wrong name here!????) They are a high quality wood, not plasic looking wood, and If thay had one when I bought my MKII FV, I would have probably gone with that instead......

Anyway you slice it, The savage is by far the best "bang" for your buck on the market today.

Cheers!
 
Its real wood but stained to look like Walnut.It doesn't look that great but is functional.I don't like those black plastic stocks but they too have their purpose[Weather resistant and don't expand and contract like wood affecting accuracy]
 
noi said:
Lets assume you can get a synthetic (F) for the same price as a walnut stock (G) which would you guys choose? Is the walnut stock even real wood? or is is fake plasticly wood? Does it look good or cheap?
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If you can get them for the same price go for the "F" just for the target barrel (I prefer the looks but the only "F" they had in stock was .17HM2 and I Wanted a .22LR)
 
Target barrel? doesnt the g and f have the same barrel? Are you sure your not mistaking it for a FV that has a heavy barrel?
 
Should i try to find a FSS (stainless) version? Wouldnt the more heavy stainless steel essentially make the barrel a "heavy barrel" also? I mean plus who wants a gun that rust?
 
noi said:
Should i try to find a FSS (stainless) version? Wouldnt the more heavy stainless steel essentially make the barrel a "heavy barrel" also? I mean plus who wants a gun that rust?
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A heavy barrel means the thickness not the weight.

Also if you take care of your gun you should have no worry about rust issues.

Personally though I have a problem with sunshine reflecting off a stainless steel barrel, annoys the hell out of me....
 
What about heat absorption and not being as prone to flex? From a welding stand point it takes alot more to weld the same thickness stainless as compared to normal, if this means less swelling of the metal then it will create a more consistent shot, stainless steel is alot stronger and more ridged so wouldn't that also help with consistency and being less prone to swelling?
 
I fire up to 500 rounds a day and my accuracy has never diminished at all. So I don't think you need to worry about that.

Just pick the gun that best suits you and what you want. The target barrels have generally SLIGHTLY better accuracy but not by much.
 
First of all, we are talking about a bolt action .22 here, barrell heat up is really a non-issue. My 10/22 gets pretty damn toasty after I dump 2 x 25 round and the factory 10 rounders back to back, but my MKII has never got much more than warm to the touch, even shooting as fast as I can reload the mags. I will highly recommend Savage and their accutrigger from personal experience, and if you need open sights, then any of the "V"'s is out of the question. I would go with a wood-stocked version, such as the "G" over the synthetic "F" version, simply because I have the synthetic stock on my FV and it is pretty cheap and has a horrible cheek weld. I think if i remember right the "G" has a monte carlo stock on it and would offer a much better cheek weld, when and if you scope it up in the future. I'm hoping that I will be able to try out a winchester wildcat in a few weeks, but going by some preliminary research, that might also be quite the shooter with a target crown, heavier (medium weight) barell, and 2-stage trigger, while still maintaining open sights.

http://www.winchesterguns.com/prodinfo/ads/support/pdf/wildcat_flyer_150.pdf
 
BTW here's my model "G" incase the OP wants to see what mine looks like :D
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Im torn really. I dont know what to do. As gibbs says the wildcat looks interesting, the mark II has a great trigger, but who knows if it shoots as tight of groups? It also looks like i can get a marlin 925 (wood) for the same price as a mark II F or G.

To be honest this isnt something i will dispose of, itll probably stay wih me for a long time (if not the end of time) so i want to be certian before i buy it. Hell im even open to go a bit over the $300 budget (not nearly enough for a cz though)
 
noi said:
Im torn really. I dont know what to do. As gibbs says the wildcat looks interesting, the mark II has a great trigger, but who knows if it shoots as tight of groups? It also looks like i can get a marlin 925 (wood) for the same price as a mark II F or G.

To be honest this isnt something i will dispose of, itll probably stay wih me for a long time (if not the end of time) so i want to be certian before i buy it. Hell im even open to go a bit over the $300 budget (not nearly enough for a cz though)
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Here is the first first target I shot with the Savage. Not THAT good but I was shooting with open sites and a cross wind from 50 yards. Did I also mention I shot this target less than 30 minutes of taking the Savage out of the box? I did nothing but load up the mag and slap it in.

The Savages are AMAZINGLY accurate rimfires! With a scope I can easily shoot .22 casings at 50 yards. Don't mind the one straw shot, that was my first one and I pulled :D

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Here's another shot at 50 yards I did with the Savage (with scope) a couple weeks ago. Had to wait for a perfectly calm day to try and make this shot to which I only took one.

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So yeah accuracy is NOT a problem....

Both were done using "cheap" Winchester Xpert .36 grain....
 
Ok after reading pretty much all day it seems like the mark II is a good choice. Now its between wood and synthetic.

I like the look of yours, the wood i mean, but the wood on the rifle on their website doesn't attract me so much.

Synthetic is great because its resistant to so much though.

Choices choices, I like wood but its got to be nice looking wood, theres nothing more i hate then fake or fake looking wood.
 
noi said:
Ok after reading pretty much all day it seems like the mark II is a good choice. Now its between wood and synthetic.

I like the look of yours, the wood i mean, but the wood on the rifle on their website doesn't attract me so much.

Synthetic is great because its resistant to so much though.

Choices choices, I like wood but its got to be nice looking wood, theres nothing more i hate then fake or fake looking wood.
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The wood seems to differ from some of the guns, I've seen G's with beautiful looking wood whereas with mine I thought it was actually synthetic wood. If you want a nice looking wood it's nothing to simply sand these stocks down and then reapply oil. In fact there are MANY pictures here with people who have done that and their guns are drool worthy.

These two belong to pharaoh2
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They aren't G's but the wood is the same. The above are the Mark II classic series type I believe. I'll be doing that to mine later this year.

I wanted the synthetic but when I held it, the synthetic seemed really plastically to me, maybe it was just that gun but that was one of two reasons I settled with the "G".

One one thing that Savage has above all others is the accutrigger. To change the trigger pull all you have to do is take the action out of the stock and use the tool provided to increase or decrease it. I doubt there is a more smoother trigger than the Savage. :D
 
I have a Ruger, a Marlin, and a Savage. I would say I like the Savage best of all...get a Savage.

Cabelas.ca has the Savage "G" on for $219 at that price you could scope it too. Check out the summer flyer they have many rimfires on sale. (Marlin,Savage,Winchester)
 
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