I got a nice 30-06 with a very nice scope for $275 used at a gun store. It’s a dang canon.
SKS, Remington 700.
Honestly.....you could get a Mosin-Nagant for cheap that would be quite effective against any game in North America.
Well, I’m all for arming bears, but deer?......................
Sixty years ago, when most people still didn’t have an extra dime, the 5 shot bolt action army surplus rifle was used for hunting. Great shooters, often 5-10 dollars at your local hardware store. The store owner would break a box of ammo and allow you to buy five rounds for the deer season.
Prices at that time...
Army surplus rifle,—$5-10 dollars.
American made sporting hunting rifle-—$45.00
You could even order through the mail and have it shipped to your door.
So some eastern congressmen decided to play up the army surplus rifle as a “crime gun” to get them banned from the USA. It helped their cause when President John Kennedy was murdered with an Italian army surplus rifle. The whole ban idea was to protect US makers from cheap military imports.
Banned from import in 1968, the same rifle, off the same assembly line bearing the same markings, was allowed to be imported IF it was originally issued to the police and not the army.
Finally in the 1980s, this silliness was done away with.
I have a Savage Axis .308 and am not happy with the scope set-up. I have to stretch my head forward to get my eye close enough to the scope to sight. The scope is set as far back as possible. I’ve see “rail” attachments that would allow bringing the scope back farther, but then I have half the scope floating over the stock. I think what I’d like is to find and affordable “competition” stock/forearm with multiple adjustments that I could mount the Axis hardware on to. Any suggestions?
I have two Howa 1500s. One in .223 and one in .308. They are both tack drivers, and both were under $350 each.
bkmk
Ruger Americans are also available in 6.5 Creedmoor.
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