Yeah aa I've heard from others too that the Marlin is as accurate as the Savage, and my most accurate .22 is a Model 25 Glenfield I've owned since I was 12 that pops dogs nicely out to 50 or so, just a little longer from some sort of rest....from the bench it shoots a hair over 3/4" at 50 with the basic Remington golden bullet HPs...and looks and feels eerily simiar to their "new" .17....
And I've seen their newest models have some kind of knock off "accu-trigger" like the Savage....
I was just about settled on the .222 over a .17 until I found that Savage though...it was sweet...
And Dannie I already have my Bench gun for P-dogs, my Swift...but am looking for a lighter walking around rifle to shoot from crossed sticks or a walking bipod....we do a lot of walking too, and coming up over a new ridge and seeing another town on the other side with hundreds of "new" dogs looking at you is a thrill too....last year my buddies got a lot that way with their .17 and a K-Hornet, out to 150 or so, the Hornet out to almost 200, while I stood around mostly watching and only getting the occasional stupid one up close or the "yipper..."with the Glenfield.
They both let me try both rifles and I was popping them too with them from the tall bipod, and the Swift worked well for it too, just got a little old lugging around a 12+lbs rifle for very long!
