Mossberg is now making an entry level "sniper" rifle on their MVP series action. Link here;
http://www.mossberg.com/category/ser...lr-long-range/
I have been contemplating for a while now that it seems most of my shooting now seems to consist of cast shooting from a bench at the house at 100 yards just poking holes in paper. I don't shoot handguns that much anymore and my hunting interests seem to be shifting to squirrels and birds and not deer so much. We have a pretty limited firearms season anyway.
I know there are higher end rifles for this purpose, but I kind of liked the feel of this one when I held one. Heavy, but not overly so and not real awkward the way a lot of bull barreled guns are. They are pretty ugly, but it would just be me looking at it.
I am far from being in the "tacticool" crowd, I'm a blued steel and walnut kind of guy, but it would be cool to try one of these or similar.
Anyone have experience? Some of the write ups suggest that accuracy on these may not be the greatest, but the American rifleman's article about them only used factory ammo, and a lot of the comments about accuracy were probably from mall ninjas who either can't shoot or are using cheap ammo as well. As most of us agree, you can better most rifles' performance with handloads.
Anybody have one of these?