![]() The second thing you get for the extra samolians is a very nice Remington 700 style action. I wouldn’t trust it for TSA approval, but it’s good enough for range duty, and a quick rain shower on the way home proved that it will keep the rifle dry in the bed of a truck. Now, I fully recognize that a rifle case doesn’t make a damn bit of difference in the field, but this is every bit as nice as some of the Plano hard cases I’ve seen. So what does the Woodsman give you for $300 more than the price of a Ruger American Rifle Predator edition?įirst, a very sturdy hard sided case. That rifle, as you’ll remember, retails for nearly $2700. That rifle, incidentally, is the B-14 Woodsman from Bergara. This is a rifle with real world pricing at just a few Hamiltons over $700…right in the ballpark of major manufacturer’s walnut stocked, blued actioned bolt guns.īergara’s Woodsman is assembled in the same factory as the identically chambered LRP Elite I reviewed earlier this year. Perusing the shelves of my hometown gun shop, the walnut stocked guns are few and far between while the shelves are dominated by these plastic fantastics.Īnd why wouldn’t you buy one? For less than $400, you can buy a sub MOA rifle in 6.5 Creedmoor from Ruger that will poke holes in things just as easily as the rifle you see here. I assume Savage started the trend, but Ruger and Mossberg have gone hog wild with the concept. But as manufacturing and marketing caught up, someone had the wise idea to put a solid bolt action with a good button rifled barrel in a plastic stock with a good trigger and sell it for something slightly more than a song and a dance. For years, the bolt gun was safe from all of that. Whether we care to admit it or not, today’s masses desire (and buy) plastic stocked, cheaply manufactured space guns. ![]()
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