Quote Originally Posted by ellobo
You can buy a used rifle for from $200-$350. but, make sure it is a real short action not one of the so called intermediate short actions. Use the rifle for a donor action and sell the rest, barel. stock etc. on the classified here, but you have to be a member for $12. Look in Auction Arms or Gun Broker for used rifles. Pawn shops.

El Lobo
..but not one with a Target Action (as the OP posted) which is the Action used on the F/TR, Benchrest, LRPV, and only a very few of the Savage Model 12 line...