Gonna go look at a CZ 527 at a "local" (nothing is local to me out here) gun store and see what I think. I don't think I'll be satisifed until I handle them both. Aside from a mid-range hunting rifle and inexpensive plinker, my main reason for looking at this 7.62x39 chambering is for a lightweight woods rifle that I can scope with something like a 1.5-5x20 compact and light optic. I spend a lot of time on my feet in the woods when I hunt whitetails with a rifle, and as much as I enjoy my model 11 .308 at the range, between the 22" barrel and 4-12 AO optic, it's flat wearing me out carrying it all day long. It also doesn't point very quickly in the woods, I've found.

So that may become my range/stand rifle and the 7.62x39 my walking rifle. Just not sure the Savage Scout is going to be light and handy enough to be much different from my model 11 in that dept.

Decisions, decisions. Heck, I may just fall in love with that CZ and bring it home. We'll see...