Quote Originally Posted by sharpshooter View Post
Avoid all the headaches and go with a TAC 338, they are made specifically for that round and have no "cons".
I always hear people say this but I haven't really heard any concrete 'cons' about the Savage action. It's all people speculating about different things but not actually knowing why it's "not as good." For some reason, most people that say these things don't actually have any experience with them either, it's more or less what they've heard from others.

I get that the TAC-338 was made for the Lapua specifically, and I'm sure it's been manufactured 'better' than the Savage, but that's not to say that the latter isn't a serviceable alternative for those wanting to shoot the bigger cartridges without selling the farm.

I've yet to experience any of these cons, and I've definitely never heard of any catastrophic failures, so I don't get why people feel the need to impose this info/reasoning when it's not necessarily justified.