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Affordable 243 Bolt Action Rifles from Ruger, Stevens, Weatherby, and Savage

Video: 243 Bolt Actions: We Test Ruger, Savage, Stevens, and Weatherby If you’re looking for a good deer rifle for a good price, Gun Tests Magazine's test team found four that won’t break the bank. In a head to head test conducted by Contributing Editor Joe Woolley, our shooters found the American was the most accurate in this quartet with an average group size of 0.98 inches across three different types of ammo. Ruger American 6904 243 Winchester, $442 All in, the Savage Hunter had the best stock in the test, offered a good trigger, and produced good groups. Savage Model 110 Hunter 57063 243 Winchester, $760 Some bolt-action rifles require that they be cycled quite a few times before they smooth out. The Stevens bolt operated smoothly from the beginning. Stevens Model 334 18839 243 Winchester, $425 This Weatherby Vanguard First Lite may have wound up in last place in the accuracy race, but it only missed first place by an average of 0.15 inch overall. Weatherby Vanguard First Lite 243 Winchester, $923 For this test of 243 Winchester bolt-action rifles, we used 80-grain TTSX rounds by Barnes, 90-grain TGK loads from Sierra, and 95-grain SST bullets loaded by Black Hills Ammunition. Here we see different treatments of the bolt heads. We had no feeding or ejection issues. Left, the rear of those two lugs on the Savage Hunter’s bolt float a bit, helping the bolt line up as concentrically as possible with the action. The three-lug bolts of the Stevens (left) and Ruger (right) also have similar ejector plungers and extractors. Right, the black bolt of the Weatherby also has two lugs. The accuracy data we collected at the range didn't uniformly favor any one rifle, but the Ruger was best overall. We fired the rifles at 100 yards with scopes. With the Barnes VOR-TX, the Savage eked out a narrow win. With the Sierra Gamechangers, the Ruger was only slightly better than the Savage. With the Black Hills Gold rounds, the Ruger was more than a quarter-inch better than the others. The Ruger American rifle was configured for a conventional rotary magazine. But the base stock is made to allow different types of magazines. The easy conversion is another cost savings to you. The Savage M110 Hunter comes with a four-round metal magazine. Feeding was flawless. The Stevens magazine holds only three rounds. Most hunters don’t need more than that in the gun, but capacity always helps. The Weatherby carries its ammunition in a smooth-feeding five-round internal box. The Ruger's injection-molded stock won’t win any beauty contests, but it does its job well. The Savage 110 comes with a very rigid stock due to the molded-in chassis and is very easily adjusted. If you need a tiebreaker between the Savage Hunter and the plain Ruger American polymer stock, this is it. There was some good figure on the Stevens’ Turkish walnut stock, especially for an inexpensive rifle. The Vanguard’s buttstock had enough height in the Monte Carlo comb to locate our face correctly for the scope and a negative comb to push recoil past our cheek instead of into it. The Ruger Power Bedding blocks do a great job of attaching the stock to the action while lifting the barrel off the stock. Ruger doesn’t use glass bedding or other traditional methods for attaching the stock to the action, but the outcome is still a free-floating barrel. Inside the Savage Hunter’s stock is an aluminum cradle. The entire action is mated to this cradle via a strong recoil lug and two screws tightened into the action. The Turks added a nice bedding block through which the Stevens’ action screws attach to the recoil lug. They even use pillars to keep from crushing the wood. The barrel free-floats as a result. The Weatherby stock lacked a bedding block or other metal-to-metal fitments like we saw on the others. The First Lite’s fore end was well reinforced on the inside, but not to the extent of the Savage Hunter. No free-floating here. So what did our shooters think of these rifles? The Stevens Model 334 got a B grade and was our fourth choice. We thought the trigger could be improved, capacity increased, and the lines made a bit more pleasing to the eye. The Weatherby Vanguard First Lite was a B+ gun, we thought. It had good accuracy with an outstanding trigger. Balance was great, and it was easy to carry. Free-float the barrel, and this could easily have been our winner. The Savage Model 110 Hunter was a grade A- gun, offering good accuracy and a good trigger. The rifle’s Accustock’s comb-height inserts and buttpad length-of-pull inserts allow for wide customization. We awarded the Ruger American an A- grade and thought it was the Best Buy of this quartet. It was the most accurate rifle in the group by a narrow margin, and it was the lightest in this group. We would have liked it to have a threaded muzzle for a brake or suppressor.