cbang65
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I got a Patriot in 243 just to fool with. Had the plastic stock but ordered a wood stock right away. Did shoot it early on with the plastic stock and seem's it shot fine as it was. But I like wood. Wood stock is not checkered, called stippling. Action is bedded on plastic but works fine. trigger guard is also plastic and the front guard screw crush's it, don't care for that. Mossberg say's torque is 25# max. Seem's to work fine! With good handloads mine with shoot right at 1/2" at 100 yds. Liked it so well I also went out and got one in 308 for shooting cast bullet's. Trigger is good but don't know if I care for the tab sticking out of it. Probably just matter of getting used to it. All in all I think it's a super rifle, with the wood stock of course, and I hate stainless too! Really like Rem 700's but been a lot of years since I've bought one. Prefer the ADL for whatever reason. Thing about Rem 700's is they are really easy to bed and I like the trigger everyone else hate's! They only adjust down to 3# safely but then mine are hunting rifle's!
I've already got an American in .30-06... I could always use an excuse for a new gun so it sounds like a Patriot in 6.5 manbun might be the ticket for my student budget.