Help Me Decide....

[elkhunter]

Alright. I am enlisting the help of you fellow THR members to help me decide on my next rifle purchase. I have already narrowed it down to a couple of options.

I am going to use the rifle for coyotes/varmint hunting. I haven't decided between a .223 or a 22-250 so that is one of the considerations.

Here are the choices:

1. Savage 10FP-LE1A in .223 only

2. Savage 12-VSS in 22-250 or .223

3. Remington
Model 70 VS

4. Winchester Coyote

5. Or a Bushmaster Varminter or V-match.

I found a good deal on the Bushie Varminter at $975 that will be hard to pass up, even though It's more than I wanted to pay. The other rifles meet the $600-700 dollar price range.

I'm not to crazy about the Remington or Winchester just because the factory triggers leave some to be desired on a tackdriver rifle, and the Savage and Bushie triggers are so sweet........

Any opinions and personal experiences with the above rifles would be greatly appreciated. Thankyou.

 

[Beetle Bailey]

I've shot two different Savage 10 FP (with a plain-jane stock, not the one pictured in your link) in .223 and if you decide to go with .223, I don't think you will be disappointed with the Savage. It's very accurate and the trigger is very nice to use. With a Weaver Grand Slam scope set to 4x, I was consistantly hitting a steel plate at 600 yards (okay, at that range, I'm kinda lobbing the bullets at the target , especially with the head wind). Buddy's GF was doing it, too and neither of us are expert shooters, either. YMMV and HTH.