Savage has a pretty neat trick that they do periodically -- they resurrect the Stevens brand name and peddle the older style Savage 110 rifles under it.
Right now they have done so again and Wal Mart is distributing the long action Savage as a "cut rate" Stevens rifle. The price for the NON-Accu-trigger gun is about $260 and the cartridges currently covered are the long action 25-06, 270, 30-06, 7mm Rem Mag and 300 Winchester Mag. $270 for a Stevens is a whole lot better than $425 for the normal trigger Savage 110 was just a few months ago.
If you want Accu-trigger, plan to pay an additional $200 for it when buying the "slightly more expensive new standard Savage 110".
Savage shoots better than it looks .... remember how everyone was searching a while back for the older Savage guns that sold so durn cheaply in the distant past? Guns that now cost more than $200 used (in fair shape) when you can find them at all?
History repeats itself periodically. Expect to see some short action Stevens guns at Wally World before long. I bet we could all pool together and get a short run of 35 caliber Stevens guns built if we all wrote in to Savage about it. Tell them boys at Savage that some 35 caliber short light "youth rifles" are needed by beleagered trout fishermen so they can protect themselves from marauding bears or some such story ..... then we get our WalMarts to order us one fer cheap once there is a catalog number in existance to order.
How would a full length $260 Stevens 35 Whelen or short action 358 Winchester suit you guys? Just the thing to go along with those six holer 180 grain Lar slug LEE molds that are being ordered.
Oldfeller