So Savage has picked up the baton from Ruger, it seems....

Duzell said:
i dont personally care about beauty or looks

Functionality for the job will win every time in my book
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Don't let your wife or girlfriend hear you say that! You'll be in the dog house for sure.;)


I'm not sure the B-Mag is long for this world. If you read about them over on Savage Shooters, it seems that most are not accurate. Plus there is a shortage of .17 WSM most places as well. Of course Savage isn't building them they're just stamping their name on them, so they could drop them really easy if they want to.
 
Just for your information, Savage has been making ugly rifles for decades. They look like they are made out of spare plumbing parts. Back when they used wood stocks, it looked like they got their wood from the rejects pallet makers wouldn't use. Their bluing looks like something on the subway walls, just nasty. They use stamped sheet metal and cast parts in the trigger group, the most critical part of the whole rifle!!! BUT . . . they usually shoot very well. So, if you liked dating the fat ugly girls in high school because they put out, then go ahead and buy a Savage. If you like driving rusty old cars because they run well enough to get you where you are going, go ahead and get that Salvage. If the $40 you save over buying a Remington or a Ruger is worth having to close one eye when you look at your rifle because it hurts too much to look at it with both eyes open, then go ahead! Not me.
 
A new record has been set! Twenty-four posts talking about "Ugly Guns" and not one mention of the High Point. Congratulations to all!

Jim
 
I have two rifles with wood stocks. My .243 Model 77 Ruger and a Westernfield 30-30. Everything else is synthetic and ugly. I baby the heck outta the Ruger too. Hardly ever take the thing out of the house.
 
savage J, synthetic v. wood, and ugly rifles

It took me a long time to warm up (pun intended) to synthetic stocks. They seemed noisy, cold (literally) , slick and of course, untraditional. When I realized that warping and zero shift could be reduced, how tough and worry free they were, I began to like them a bit more. And then they started to appear in different colors and camo schemes, what next?

The boat paddle Rugers took a lot of getting used to. I finally ended up with one, and am of the opinion that for production, blue collar, mass produced syn stock, they may well have been the toughest, quietest, and most stiff. But that RUGER emblazoned on them takes some getting used to. The boat paddles hold some attraction to some folks and seems like a rifle so equipped gets a boost in asking price.

Ugly Savage wood. Yeah, many of the 110's had plain, beech maybe, hardwood stocks that were just awful. But my Dad carried a Savage 110 home one day, marked "J-Series" that has a walnut stock and deep bluing on the metal, (mid 80's, early 90's maybe?) that is really good looking. Chambered in .243, it is a "long action" and maybe the prettiest earlier 110 I have ever seen. Shoots good too!.
 
Personally i think AR are the ugliest but im more of a single shot guy. I got quite the collection of ugly guns that i quite enjoy though. My marlin 336 is ugly as sin because i built it out of an old action and a cracked stock with a left-over .219 zipper barrel, sure shoots good though. I killed my first elk with a skeleton stocked Ruger 270. Put that 6x6 on the ground. I just bought a sporterized krag with all the metal spray painted and the stock butchered. My henry golden boy has a deep gouges (clear through the brass plating) where i fell down with it in a rock pile. Had a hi-point 9mm when i was a kid. Shot really well till the slide fell off. Guess im just a connoisseur of ugly guns.
 
Hi-Points are ugly for sure, but hands down winner of ugly rifle for me is the Mossberg 464 SPX.

I borrowed this picture from Google Images.

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Then there are some other winners out there like T/C Dimension.

Anyone remember the Savage Mako?
 
A new record has been set! Twenty-four posts talking about "Ugly Guns" and not one mention of the High Point. Congratulations to all!
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Funny you say that Jim - I was going to post about Hi-Points, after someone mentioned Glocks above, but refrained since it's the rifle forum. But now that you brought it up - Hi-Points: Uglier than a Glock, but a better value. :)
 
Scorch, I have my fair share of Savage, Ruger, Winchester, Remington and Weatherby rifles (both the Mark V and the Vanguard.) Savage and WBY are without question the most accurate out of the box. Ruger is just a beautiful piece of junk. If you like, I can list all the problems I have had from my beautiful Ruger rifles. I never bought Savage because of price, I bought them because they were accurate.
 
Well my wife was pretty when I married her (she 22, me 42) yes I know I am a dirty old man (LOL). But after 28 years of marriage we both are the worst for wear. Now if you really want to see ugly I would post MY picture.

Maybe that is why I like ugly guns, they look better than I do. (LOL)







But I do own some nice ones (bought them by mistake, LOL)







Jim
 
That Ruger posted earlier, could get some "lipstick" in the form of wood inserts... I actually like how this one looks now ( used to wear green inserts )

 
The handy thing about firearms is the only person who the looks matter to is the owner. Personally I like the skeletonized Ruger Stocks, and dislike the humpback brownings too. I also do not like some of the more "colorful" furniture added to AR's and AK's but since mine is plain and I don't own the others paint them bright purple if'n ya want. I'll even shoot next to you on a range and not be bothered.
 
Some people just don't have the money and a savage 11 or ruger american is better then the model 700 just built for sales at walmart.
 
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