Originally Posted by
Texas10
I bought a 12 FV in 223 for my son last year. On sale at Cabelas and a $100 rebate from Savage (I'm hoping the rebate is offered again around Black Friday after Thanksgiving) and the final price was $289 after the rebate. I put a $180 thumbhole laminate stock, $250 Vortex scope, Bi-Pod, 20 MOA scope base, and some decent scope rings. It shoots very small groups.. with my son shooting....and reloading is a snap. So for under a grand, it's a very good target gun, and killed a boar with it last month.
Pretty hard to beat that on a fun per dollar basis. You can certainly do a whole lot worse!