I swapped out the barrel on my Howa 270 for a 6.5-284 Norma.
Added a Stocky's stock and a CF barrel
My first 3 shots went into 0.22".
5 went into 0.25"
I quit shooting them to frame that target (and before i could F it up! Lol).
Heavy as shit
The McMillian stock is heavy but does well for recoil...
Without reading further I can nearly see the eye rolls that your response generated so I thought I'd add my own eye-roll fodder:
Last year I send back 2 items to Leupold, 4 items to Vortex, and have one new rifle to unfuck the chamber in but the guy who did the chamber is a local guy of who...
I love my Mavens. I upgraded from Vortex.
My limited time behind the Leupold bx5's left me impressed too.
I'd just snag whichever one went on sale first or for the biggest discount.
Bonded= 2 types of metal bonded via a chemical process.
Locked = 2 types of metal physically locked into each other usually via some type of machines ring or other physical (non-chemical) means.
Ive watched both a Watsui and a water buffalo do the Bang!Flop! Via 7 PRC and 300 PRC ELD-X
Although my sample size with ELD-X and XL critters is small they have impressed me greatly.
I've always thought that Ruger and Savage had the El cheapo gun market cornered for poorly feeding rifles that nearly always SHOOT!
The Savage being the better shooting but rougher feeding of the two.