What is a BDL or ADL?

What is a BDL or ADL?

BDLs have a floor plate that opens up to drop the un shot rounds out of the bottom metal, they are also finished a bit better.
ADLs have a blind floorplate, this means that the rounds must be cycled through the bolt to unload the un shot rounds.

Both have lighter barrel profiles than that of the target or tactical style rifles and also lighter wooden stocks.  This makes them way easier to carry in the field, but gives a disadvantage when at the target range.  The lighter barrels heat up much faster than the heavy profiles, thus causing you to fire shots more slowly to allow the barrel to cool.  The bullets point of impact can shift as the barrel heats, and also the thinner barrel is 'whippier' causing a slight degradation in pure accuracy.  Also, the light weight causes more felt recoil for any given caliber.

For the price point you mentioned Savage is a good rifle to begin with.  The floating bolthead on a Savage is what makes them some of the most accurate factory rifles you can get.  However, the stocks, triggers, barrels and finish are not that great, but to get the rifle up to par, aftermarket parts are readily available and pretty easy to install.  In fact, the target rifle I shoot now is a semi-custom I built myself.  It can shoot bugholes, as long as I can hold right...
Then again after you buy a better stock, trigger, barrel, bolt handle, bolt lift kit, yada yada yada,  you'll still end up spending a pretty penny. 

I have a Remington PSS in .308 and a Springfield Socom 16 in .308 and absolutely love both of them.

Different beasts for different burdens.

The PSS is incredibly accurate. I've never had any problem with the trigger at all.

The Socom is a phenomenal battle rifle with plenty of power and plenty accurate out to the 200 yards that I've fired it.

could you pls. tell me where you picked up your socom 16. the other half just walked in while i was browsing the springfield site and immediately said, i want that one! thanks.

Heavies, thats true.  Sports authority got the savage 30-06 on sale for $250 with scope.  I think the .308 is pretty close in price.  I was thinking of just picking one up and going from there.  At least that route i have a baseline, can shoot and have a idea to judge other riffles from.  On the other hand they say save up for what you want, instead of getting something cheaper and not liking it.  Hahahahaa.

Quote from: Kingkeoni on September 20, 2011, 08:26:55 PM

I have a Remington PSS in .308 and a Springfield Socom 16 in .308 and absolutely love both of them.

Different beasts for different burdens.

The PSS is incredibly accurate. I've never had any problem with the trigger at all.

The Socom is a phenomenal battle rifle with plenty of power and plenty accurate out to the 200 yards that I've fired it.

could you pls. tell me where you picked up your socom 16. the other half just walked in while i was browsing the springfield site and immediately said, i want that one! thanks.

I had the guys at Security Equipment order it for me.

I absolutely love that rifle.

If .308 ammo was less expensive, I'd shoot it a lot more.

Quote from: mving4ward on September 26, 2011, 08:44:09 PM

Quote from: Kingkeoni on September 20, 2011, 08:26:55 PM

I have a Remington PSS in .308 and a Springfield Socom 16 in .308 and absolutely love both of them.

Different beasts for different burdens.

The PSS is incredibly accurate. I've never had any problem with the trigger at all.

The Socom is a phenomenal battle rifle with plenty of power and plenty accurate out to the 200 yards that I've fired it.

could you pls. tell me where you picked up your socom 16. the other half just walked in while i was browsing the springfield site and immediately said, i want that one! thanks.

I had the guys at Security Equipment order it for me.

I absolutely love that rifle.

If .308 ammo was less expensive, I'd shoot it a lot more.

thanks! i'll make some calls tomorrow. too bad she has to wait. thanks again.

Heavies, thats true.  Sports authority got the savage 30-06 on sale for $250 with scope.  I think the .308 is pretty close in price.  I was thinking of just picking one up and going from there.  At least that route i have a baseline, can shoot and have a idea to judge other riffles from.  On the other hand they say save up for what you want, instead of getting something cheaper and not liking it.  Hahahahaa.

That is probably the Savage Axis. From everything I've read, it is a pretty decent rifle for the money. It doesn't have all the configuration options, but it can get you a decent rifle with decent accuracy that you could hunt with if you wanted to. Rifle Basix even makes a drop in trigger if you want to change that out.

Quote from: Kingkeoni on September 26, 2011, 09:55:42 PM

Quote from: mving4ward on September 26, 2011, 08:44:09 PM

Quote from: Kingkeoni on September 20, 2011, 08:26:55 PM

I have a Remington PSS in .308 and a Springfield Socom 16 in .308 and absolutely love both of them.

Different beasts for different burdens.

The PSS is incredibly accurate. I've never had any problem with the trigger at all.

The Socom is a phenomenal battle rifle with plenty of power and plenty accurate out to the 200 yards that I've fired it.

could you pls. tell me where you picked up your socom 16. the other half just walked in while i was browsing the springfield site and immediately said, i want that one! thanks.

I had the guys at Security Equipment order it for me.

I absolutely love that rifle.

If .308 ammo was less expensive, I'd shoot it a lot more.

thanks! i'll make some calls tomorrow. too bad she has to wait. thanks again.

Call OGC too for a price comparison.  Their prices are usually pretty good.

I was also looking for a 308 recently and I gotta say the 700 are nice guns but there are better guns out there for the same price. I really like the Tikka T3. In the end I got a Ruger gun scout and highly recommend it.