My first centerfire rifle...a Savage 110, 30-06 when I was 17 yrs old. I ordered an after-market 70% finished Bishop stock and filed off about 25% of the bulk. My Dad showed me how to thin varnish and take several coats to make a deep, lasting finish. I used boat repair epoxy from a Marine Supply store in Waterville, Maine, where I lived. Bedded the action and floated the barrel. I could only afford a K2.5X Weaver scope, but it was a deadly combo! It killed a lot of woodchucks, a few crows, and accidentally...a major power line in a valley...when honestly, shooting at a woodchuck on a dreary day. The line, about 230 yards of a 500 yard attempt at a standing woodchuck was invisible in my cheap 2.5X scope, against the similarly-colored dead spring grass, when seen from the top of a hill, behind a chicken barn in China, ME. We called the power company to report the downed line and awaited our fate, but nothing came of it. I was 15yrs, or so and my buddy was a few years older. We apparently didn't hit the woodchuck, despite about 4 shots taken. I still maintain that it owed it's life to that power line!