Doodle, consider who you are giving it to... an old fellow who used to borrow a rifle to hunt, and now wants to try it again a little bit. I'm sure that Savage, Stevens, any of the other less expensive guns will just do fine for your dad. Trigger work, bedding, stiffening.... bah humbug. I could be wrong, but I don't think he's wanting to get into competitive target shooting or hiking up 3000 feet and taking mountain goats at 400+ yards. He's probably wanting to bag some deer at 150 yards. Any of the guns mentioned here would do fine at that as is. Spending hundreds extra to get a quarter inch more accuracy is just not going to be good value. Get him an inexpensive but decent 30-06 and he will be a happy man.
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