I've got a couple. The first is a Classic in 30-06 and the second is a Western Classic in 7 STW.
The 30-06 has accidentally better wood than you'd expect on a classic, but I did hand pick it out of inventory. It shoots everything well enough and a very few very well. When the rifle has a loaded chamber and 3 in the mag it's a binding, dragging mess until that first one is out of the way. After that it's fine. So plan on a three shooter. It shoots well cold and screaming hot, which is a necessicity for my 30-06 use. It was worth the money at the time, at today's prices I'm not so sure. I wouldn't have bought it if I knew it was going to be a three shooter.
The STW was a problem child; and took a little longer than it should have to figure out. With anything other than pure powder puff loads the bolt lift was crazy and it was a tug of war to pull the bolt back. Eventually I figured out that the extractor was binding on the inner receiver ring with normal loads and the metal on metal binding locked it up. The hardest part was figuring it out, fixing was a couple passes on the outside of the extractor on a belt sander. There's no way that the test group got fired from that rifle without 3 men and a gorilla to run the bolt. I'd be willing to bet it wasn't tested at all. After the glitch was fixed function was flawless, except for being a 3 shooter. It will pile 140 grain NBTs on top of each other, but most other loads aren't anything to write home about. Plenty good enough though. At today's prices I'd say it isn't worth the money, and I'm not sure about yesterday's either. Back then they dinged us 1000 bucks extra for a magnum cartridge. Sure is pretty though .
