Is the Remington worth the $300?
having shot both, albeit before the accu-trigger which makes the Savage even MORE desireable in my book. my answer is a resonding NO!!
i haven't seen a Savage yet that couldn't beat or at least meet on even terms a similarly configed remington. basicly i don't think you can go wrong with a Savage.
my next non-military bolt gun purchase is going to be an Accutrigger equipped 10FP in .223, to replace the 110FP i had to sell last year to cover bills.
so take the extra money and turn it toward the scope and or other needed acessories. that's is what i did when i bought my 110FP. i was able to get the rifle, a decent scope, a case adn a bipod for about $10 over what i would have paid for the rifle alone if i'd bought the remington i was also considering.
and just as a funny side note. the remington i'd had my eye on, which was distinctive in that it was a phosphate finnished 700 in .223 with a Heavy, Fluted barrel, that was never cataloged by Remington, was bought by a gentleman that shot at the same range as I in NC. and i got to shoot it, and Jim got to shoot my savage. the savage shot so much better in both our oppinions, than the remington, that the next time i saw Jim he had gone out and bought a 10FP (right after i bought MY gun savage brought out the shot actions) in .223. though he DID keep the remington.
one word of caution though on the savage, as soon as you get it home give the exterior surfaces a good coat of whatever oil/CLP/etc you like. i don't know if their "matte Blue" finish has improved since my first one or not, but back then they had a problem with what i would call "dust-like" surface rust looked like that powdered cinnimon stuff folks put on donuts!!. you'd go to gunshows and swear the vender HAD to be a putz to leave a gun that dusty out without cleaning, then get closer and find out it was a very thin layer of rust that wiped off with a oil rag like dust from a mantle piece
keeping the gun wiped down kept this at bay i only ever had rust appear 3 or 4 times and all of them were MY fault. putting the gun in the safe by grasping it by the barrel with a bare hand and not wiping my hand print off, then leaving it for two weeks. Or something similarly stupid.
this and the agrivation caused by having a short action round in a long action gun (now fixed by the intro of the "10,12,16" short actions) were the only trouble i ever had out of the gun that were't completely caused by my stupid young self.
