To me, this is a personal question. I can't speak to what a Stiller action will do as I have never owned one. But I do know what Savage actions are capable of. I have seen groups from a Savage that are very tight. I can shoot .2 MOA out of my nearly stock savage with the right loads. So then I have to ask myself, can I justify the extra expense for the type of shooting I am doing? For the type I am doing my answer is NO. But maybe you are going to be doing some F-class shooting or other extremely precision target work where the extra .1 MOA is the edge for winning or losing a match. Then it would be worth it.
For me shooting deer, prairie dogs and the occasional sporting rifle match my nearly stock savage will out shoot me. I think that if you bought a savage target action you could take the extra money you saved and put it into a barrel, or stock or maybe a little extra work on the action if you think it needs it.
Then there is the cool factor. All your buddies are sitting around and one of them says "my gun is a Savage target action chambered in 338 Edge", your other buddy says "Yeah, I bought a Savage too from Walmart, I think it's and Edge too and it's a .308" And you say "I decided to go with a ....(insert your high end action here Stiller, Stolle, Lawton, Surgeon, etc...) action" And the rest of your buddies go "oooooohhhhh!"
But that's just my opinion and I don't know what type of shooting you are planning to do with it.
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