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What's up everybody?

Mark is so rudely on his phone.

Mark, you look like the millennial over there.

Product, research, Jim. Well, that's all right. So anyway, we're coming to you guys with a...

We're coming to a man right off the bat with an attack at Mark but anyway

Had a little bit of a listener request here somebody wanted us to go into the topic of more budget bolt action rifles and I say budget with a quote unquote here because we are still you

know usually talking about something that's a couple hundred dollars so but the stuff that isn't exactly at that

super high tier all these are generally coming in or we have at least something that's an

example of something that comes under four figures and yeah want to go into those we

have a number of examples here on the table across the table for Mark and I though we have of experience with pretty much every platform here on the table and if we're leaving any

out it's not because we don't like that rifle it's just because we literally just kind

of raided our safe this morning and just kind of found what fit the criteria at least

close enough.

So keep that in mind.

We'd love to hear other suggestions of stuff

that you guys have used and liked in the comments.

But anyway, Ryan Rubin, a few of the questions

I know that get asked around these quote budget rifles and forgive me for forgetting the listener's user handle but that they were asking I know is things like okay where are they going budget with it where's the manufacturer saving

money so that we save money what can you reasonably expect out of some of these

more budget rifles and then also things like you know if you're going to make

modifications to it at what point you know are you spending so much money modifying a

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