Only 45 years? Better give it a few more, just to make sure.

Yea but my response is for wood. Tikka woods aren't very nice IMO. Savage has some ok looking wood but I'm just not a fan if them or their trigger.

I wonder if a person could get a plain tikka or vangaurd and them get som custom wood and still be in that $800

BIL...Ummm you could get close...non mag T3 blue/syn at around $5-$525 from Bud's w/free shipping & no CC Fee + LGS's FFL Transfer fee ( mine charges $20 + TX Sales Tax??) ='s $550 +/-.

Then a Boyd's drop in wood stock with add ons for $250'ish would get you a choice of a Maple or Walnut in Grade 1 & mebbe grade 2 in walnut @ $100 or so, w/your choice of checkering, upgrade butt pad with a custom cut LOP, and mebbe grip cap & forend cap in alternative wood.

That leaves you to do the drop in and float & 'glass work for the targeted $800 or dang close.

Been shopping this idea for the last 6 months...either on my SS/syn 270 or start over in a another caliber. The Grade 1 maple shown is good enough for me ...if I could be assured of getting something with just a little figure in it like the pic shows.
Ron

savage.

And Ron answered that question.

yall really put to much thought into how something looks rather than shoots

How it looks doesn't matter nearly as much as how it performs. Same is true of women, but nobody wants an ugly wife.

This is some good discussion guys! Very helpful.

But I mean.... if shes rich we could prolly work with that

Bought my Sako .270 in '79 Ron. Taking it sheep hunting in AZ in December-shows you how much I think of it. So you got 10 years on me.

I've owned ugly arsed shooters and I've owned Sunday Go to Meeting Bragging Guns... it's really %$$#@! difficult to get that balance to work in anything I've ever owned.

One of the best looking rifles of any kind I ever saw in a factory stock was a Ruger 10/22 Sporter I bought from one of my dealers in 1979 for what he had on the tag...Quad A Fancy American Black Walnut through and through butt to forend, overlaid with neon bright fiddleback from butt to forend also on both sides...and would not shoot 5 shots in a 3" group at 20'. I sold it last year, as I was tired of keeping it pristine & had no emotional investment in it despite owning it for over 30 years, for enough to buy a cherry New Haven M70 FWT 300WSM with all the last minute Last Run upgrades. I don't miss the Ruger either.
Ron

If I was looking for a 270 with your parameters I'd snatch up this one http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=444603743

If I hadn't asked this question as a preparatory discussion for future action, and if I weren't in Africa for work, I would too. My CZ 452 in .22LR is my very favorite gun ever. I'm stunned that this one is available so affordably. Alas...

I can't tell you what to do, but if I were spending 800$ on a bolt action, it would be a Winchester Model 70 Featherweight

http://www.gunbroker.com/Auction/ViewItem.aspx?Item=443669119

Saw these at a local store for a tick under 800$.

I remember buying an Abolt used for $375 not to long ago. sweet gun

If you're really looking for a lifetime rifle, building is the only way to go IMO..you may end up with more than $800 in it, but you don't have to do it all at once, and it can be exactly like you want it with no compromise.

X-Bolt, your best bet these days

BUT GET AN $800+ scope to go with it!!!

A rifle is worthless without the best glass you can possibly afford

Cry Once

Does $800 include the glass or just the rifle? If it doesn't include the glass I would go with a Remington 700 cdl sf. If looks weren't as important the tikka is your best bet by far.

I left my Browning A bolt 270 Win at my father-n-laws, but can get pics this weekend. I bought an X grade Maple stock from Boyds. Had a limbsaver installed, black forend cap and grip cap added, and the fancy "Fleur de Lis/Ribbon Texture: Checkering"......beautiful and not something you see every day. Cost me around $275 plus shipping and well worth it.

Tikka3 all day

rem 700, spend the extra money on a new barrel and a trigger

.270 is a great caliber choice

This is just me - but I would say that this is the very best quality 270 on the market for the money.

Zastava at $549

Zastava made Mark X and Remington 798 Mausers. Now they market direct through K-Var. The metal finish is very good, so is the trigger. The stock on these is good walnut - but you may prefer to spend the money that you save on a fancier Boyds stock.

The 98 Mauser action is the standard by which all others are compared. Hammer-forged barrel, double-set or single trigger... After-market items all over the place. I consider this to be the very best bang for the buck, so to speak.

I'd spend the extra money on Conetrol Custum rings and mounts, they are outstanding. - The best available, cost about 200 bucks to get set up with them for this classy rifle.

http://conetrol.com/

Anyway, this is what I would buy if I had 800 bills and wanted a 270 that would be with me for a lifetime.

After sleeping on it, this is looking better and better, as is rebarreling my existing Ruger M77 tang safety to something that fits the short action (243AI, 6/6.5BR, etc). Tough decisions.

Depending on when you get back you can still find CZ 550 Americans for about $850 and Mannlichers for $800. If you rebarrel you 77, 6.5 Creedmore, 260 Rem, and 7-08, should all work.