Inexpensive range rifles?

[Whiterabbit]

I'm with the others, given the constraints. I also think (but this is opinion) that the OP should be "loose" on the desire to shoot 600 yards, to make it easier to pull the trigger on a budget rifle shooting 223. IMO for a poor college student that's likely going to yield the most trigger time.

I don't know about you guys, but the idea that eating ramen for 6 months and getting $4000 to spend on a rifle wasn't MY reality in college!

[musketjon]

The OP eliminated the Mosin Nagant with his requirements in the first post when he said it needs to shoot about 1 moa or so:

I have a 91/30 that shoots just under 2moa. That fits the '' or so'' part of the op's accuracy requirement.
Jon

[MongooseV8]

I don't know about you guys, but the idea that eating ramen for 6 months and getting $4000 to spend on a rifle wasn't MY reality in college!

Need to get your priorities corrected, lol.

[ar15barrels]

I have a 91/30 that shoots just under 2moa. That fits the '' or so'' part of the op's accuracy requirement.

Saying that "just under 2moa" is "1moa or so" is like saying that a woman who is just over a 5 on the hotness scale of 1-10 is a "10 or so"...

[Merc1138]

I'm with the others, given the constraints. I also think (but this is opinion) that the OP should be "loose" on the desire to shoot 600 yards, to make it easier to pull the trigger on a budget rifle shooting 223. IMO for a poor college student that's likely going to yield the most trigger time.

I don't know about you guys, but the idea that eating ramen for 6 months and getting $4000 to spend on a rifle wasn't MY reality in college!

Who said he needed to spend 4 grand? The OP mentioned a used 700, people mentioned other budget rifles and that a used 700 isn't a bad idea. Since it wasn't even mentioned, why would you think the "opposite"(or whatever) of a mosin is a $4,000 rifle?

[RNE228]

I like bolt action rifles best. But honestly, and it pains me to say, an AR in 556 would fit the bill.....

Either way, a decent bolt or AR with decent iron sights should be able to repeatably hit steel at 600 yards.

And go shoot a known distance Appleseed event(long distance, not 25m used for 22 rifles). It is geared towards a semi-auto, but bolt rifles can do the timed fire too.

[hambam105]

A thumb stack? Yea, but it's a 'chee-na' thumb stack. Joke. Humor. Har har har.

Last I hear there are a couple good shooters nailing down steel targets with mosin nagants at Sacramento's 600 yard range. Maybe there are 2 Sac long distance shooting ranges, or maybe 2 mosins or maybe two thumb stacks.....

[Bizcuits]

I'd go with the savage, the cheaper Remington's are just that, cheap.

[Whiterabbit]

Who said he needed to spend 4 grand? The OP mentioned a used 700, people mentioned other budget rifles and that a used 700 isn't a bad idea. Since it wasn't even mentioned, why would you think the "opposite"(or whatever) of a mosin is a $4,000 rifle?

I misread this guy:

Because I would say consider either a Mossberg MVP in 308, or a Howa Targetmaster package that includes a Nikko Stirling scope that is a detachable magazine bolt action set up that most people claim shoots really well for. My preference would probably be to save up, buy a Remington 5r for a thousand bucks and a decent scope but you're going to be eating ramen for the better part of six months to afford it

FOR a... thousand. Not..... Four Thousand.

har.

[hambam105]

Please define, "cheap".
I am here to pay cheap prices for cheap Remingtons.

[longrifle1]

Ruger American in 223.

[ar15barrels]

I'd go with the savage, the cheaper Remington's are just that, cheap.

Savage rifles are still cheap construction like they always were back when they were still cheaply priced.
The prices have just been raised to make people think they are buying a higher quality gun.
The "cheap" remington IS cheap because they copied many of Savage's "cost saving design features" in order to get the price lower.

[hambam105]

Great post ar15barrels.

I know one of your examples.

Judging from her pre-drug cartel kidnapping days to the crime scene resue photos to the recovery photos I assure you is quite remarkable.

[MongooseV8]

FYI most of the mosins at the Sac Valley steel line are Fins. Superior to a rooskie mosin in every way methinks.

[hambam105]

I am particular to M39 myself. I'm not taking any chances of those Russkie Mosin Nagant rifle bullets bouncing-off the steel targets...again.