So Herr Jagd Fuhrer, if I could digress back to the original question - If you can get your hands on a real G&H for the price you quoted, I would urge you to do it. I will certainly agree that the average out of the box, plastic stocked Savage will shoot with more consistency than most earlier rifles of any make. Likewise, a Super Black Eagle is a better killing machine than any double I can think of. But I really do not care. Neither it nor the the plastic stocked rifle has much of a soul. I suspect just a touch of our own imortality is tied up in the souls of those others who built and used these older weapons that so many of us on this board have learned to appreciate. Take that 7mm out and take a moose with it this fall, and you have added to the story it represents. Give it to a son or nephew two decades from now and that hunt will live with him. Take out that Savage, and you killed a moose.
And you are right. Treat it to a worthy piece of glass.
