Great write up and read, I’ll share my experience with my wife’s 783 in 22-250. First time shooting paper at 100 yards she shot a 1” group. I was very happy and proud, but it didn’t come without a little work. I noticed the rings were garbage so I replaced them with a pair of Leupold prw rings I had extra. When I bought her this rifle for Christmas a few years ago, I put on a Nikon scope 3-9x40 prostaff, so that was an upgrade.
But after shooting a bunch of reloads through it I noticed the stock touched the barrel. I was surprised to find the 783 had aluminum pillars in the stock, so I just used my dremel to remove some stock material down the one side. It shoots great now. One thing I don’t like it’s the trigger pull, but most of my 700’s have trigger techs or tuned triggers, it seems to be on the heavy side, I’m guessing around 4lbs. I keep my 700 triggers around 1.5-2 lbs.
I kinda want to buy one in .270 for a loaner rifle, only because it’s a caliber I don’t have, good loaner to lend out, and I got like 400 .270 brass from the brother in law. I mostly have 700’s and lots of spare rings and bases but I wouldn’t have a problem steering newer hunters towards the 783.
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