picked up a new toy

[mudstud]

I been looking for a while now for a deer rifle and finally the right one came by.

It is a Marlin XL7 bolt action chamber in .270 cant wait to get it to the range to

see what it will do.Pics are comeing does anyone know of a range around

Nashville to put it through its paces

[Guest brighac]

Nice.

[Dolomite_supafly]

I hear the barrels are the same as Savage. If that is the case it WILL be a shooter.

Another great feature about them is you can swap in Savage barrels in other calibers if you want. It is something you can do at home in under 20 minutes if you wanted to ever change calibers.

Dolomite

[TGO David]

I'd take it to CHMR to shoot it, or down to Terry Walden's place outside of Christiana.

[TnShooter83]

I've been looking at one in 25-06. But haven't bought it yet.

I sure don't need another High(er) powered rifle. But I'm a fan of stainless and 25-06.

For the price, I don't see how you can go wrong?

[DevJames]

I've heard they're fabulous rifles for the money.

If I'm thinking right, it was one of the first "budget deer rifles" that shot substantially better than the other's before it...god, what was that remington that felt like it had gravel in the action? 710? 770?

Right now seems to be the best time ever to buy a very nice, very accurate hunting rifle for 400 or less. The Ruger American looks very appealing too, as is the Savage Axis.

Sooooo many good choices.

Also, thread is useless without pics!

[Dolomite_supafly]

Actually the Stevens 200 was the accuracy king of all the budget rifles. It was exactly the same as Savage except without the accutrigger.

Dolomite.