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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 2391823" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>I would be leery of the SPS. Yes you'll hear marvelous stories online of how a guy picked one up for pennies and it's a 1 hole rifle at a thousand yards he's killed every game animal on earth with here and there but the SPS line is literally the bottom end of what Remington produces.</p><p></p><p>You're looking at 200.00 for the tax stamp and up to a 2 year wait if not longer under the current administration to get a suppressor at all and the bottom end of good suppressors I know of starts around 800-100.00 bucks. You're easily talking about tying up twice what you want to spend on a rifle for the suppressor and you haven't even put glass on it yet.</p><p></p><p>Again you'll hear online stories of the wonders of 400-600.00 scopes but I have yet to find one., After all the scopes I've been through I've learned I'm going to spend between a thousand and fifteen hundred used to get the kind of glass I want.</p><p></p><p>I'm not trying to scare you off but I am trying to give you an idea of where to set your expectations.</p><p></p><p>If you want to get into this game on a budget start with one thing at a time like the rifle itself and start shopping the classifieds here, The Hide and other places where you can pretty well verify the sellers or look at Armslist and deal only through a 3rd party FFL and only pay for the rifle after the 3rd party FFL has inspected it.</p><p></p><p>As for calibers, be careful of hanging around places like this where cannonitis is epidemic. There's not a deer, elk, moose or anything else in the Continental US you cannot successfully hunt and kill cleanly with a 270, 7RM, or 30-06 300WM. Those are also somewhat falling out of favor as all the hot new proprietary cartridges keep coming out so they can often be bought at a real bargain used.</p><p></p><p>40 years ago I shot everything bigger than coyotes with a 7RM and everything smaller with a .220 swift. Truth of the matter is that's really all a man ever "Needs" for 99% of what we hunt in N. America but some of us have pretty well lost our minds and now have safes or even rooms filled with all sorts of bigger bangers we're just sure we NEED!.</p><p></p><p>Welcome and try hard to keep your head on straight it can be tough around here.</p><p></p><p>EDTA: Dang it, got me again.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 2391823, member: 30902"] I would be leery of the SPS. Yes you'll hear marvelous stories online of how a guy picked one up for pennies and it's a 1 hole rifle at a thousand yards he's killed every game animal on earth with here and there but the SPS line is literally the bottom end of what Remington produces. You're looking at 200.00 for the tax stamp and up to a 2 year wait if not longer under the current administration to get a suppressor at all and the bottom end of good suppressors I know of starts around 800-100.00 bucks. You're easily talking about tying up twice what you want to spend on a rifle for the suppressor and you haven't even put glass on it yet. Again you'll hear online stories of the wonders of 400-600.00 scopes but I have yet to find one., After all the scopes I've been through I've learned I'm going to spend between a thousand and fifteen hundred used to get the kind of glass I want. I'm not trying to scare you off but I am trying to give you an idea of where to set your expectations. If you want to get into this game on a budget start with one thing at a time like the rifle itself and start shopping the classifieds here, The Hide and other places where you can pretty well verify the sellers or look at Armslist and deal only through a 3rd party FFL and only pay for the rifle after the 3rd party FFL has inspected it. As for calibers, be careful of hanging around places like this where cannonitis is epidemic. There's not a deer, elk, moose or anything else in the Continental US you cannot successfully hunt and kill cleanly with a 270, 7RM, or 30-06 300WM. Those are also somewhat falling out of favor as all the hot new proprietary cartridges keep coming out so they can often be bought at a real bargain used. 40 years ago I shot everything bigger than coyotes with a 7RM and everything smaller with a .220 swift. Truth of the matter is that's really all a man ever "Needs" for 99% of what we hunt in N. America but some of us have pretty well lost our minds and now have safes or even rooms filled with all sorts of bigger bangers we're just sure we NEED!. Welcome and try hard to keep your head on straight it can be tough around here. EDTA: Dang it, got me again. [/QUOTE]
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