400-Dollar Hunting Rifle VS 2,000-Dollar Hunting Rifle

45 here yes we're going to look at the difference between a 400 hunting rifle and a 2 000 hunting rifle is there really a difference that matters let's put it that way well let's just shoot the 400 hunting rifle now it has a scope on it so it makes it a little more expensive but we'll talk about that okay basically the rifle without the scope is about 400 bucks ruger american let's see if it'll shoot oh boy hit that steel that two liter let's uh let's try red plate in the middle it did how about uh another oh a bowling pin yep it works if you've ever had an american ruger american you know anybody who has one you know they tend to work don't they good shooters now let's try a seiko bavarian 10270 that one was in 308 this is in 270. it's the seiko model 85 bavarian and they run about 2 000 so let's see if it'll shoot uh it had better huh oh that plate is still moving let's see if we can pop it again we did that's the one on the right all right we got to get a 2 liter with this thing too we have another round in this that holds five that's why it costs more five rounds versus four that'll that'll cost you a thousand at least every time right hey a 270 works you notice that yeah we're gonna we're gonna talk a little bit about the difference and uh and why you really want to pay 2 000 instead of 400 or 500 so but first we want to thank budsgunshop.com for sending yeah both of these rifles yeah always forgot i've had this one a while been shooting it and then that one for a little while so uh budsgunshop.com we really appreciate their help we're able to do this kind of thing because of their assistance so check them out and we're firing federal ammunition we're able to do that federal premium great stuff and don't forget sonoran desert institute sdi.edu you can get certified in gunsmithing okay study firearms technology start a new career okay appreciate it um so we appreciate all the help we get from those people and uh you people most of you are people i think right yeah probably at least as much people as i am so all right here we go first disclaimer now let's keep down the class envy as much as possible i know i know i know it's really tempting to find a million reasons why you don't need a two thousand dollar rifle because it's no better than that one and you're just paying for the name and we can all rationalize that kind of stuff i do it every day and tell people i don't have a mercedes because i'm not gonna just pay for the name or i'd be driving a mercedes all the time or even rolls royce i don't want to just pay for the name well there's some truth in that though isn't there i'm giving you a hard time but there is some truth in that sometimes we pay we're always paying for the name name is how the reputation's established just like you individually me individually our name should mean something if the name the mercedes didn't mean anything they wouldn't mean anything or seiko or ruger or uh winchester or whatever right so those names begin to have meaning because of the quality they represent or the lack of quality they represent which is kind of what it is so yeah we are sort of paying for the name the question is is it worth it that much so is it worth that much okay well let's let's look at what you kind of get in a 400 rifle versus a couple thousand and these are just samples these are just samples i happen to have and that's why well i say happen to have we we had this because i love this rifle and i've mentioned that in a sunday shoot around in the video first video with and i'll link to that how i've uh picked these things up at shot show or nra meeting and i think oh this gun fits me like a glove you know and uh and i i finally got one from buds and there's more to that story too so that's why i have it that was intentional and then but we ought to compare this with a less expensive uh rifle uh that's very popular and so i ordered this one from buds to on loan you know as this one is online and so that's why we're here and that's what we're doing so let's jump right in okay what is the difference well when you look at them now pretend the scope is not on that okay you don't you're not really looking at a scope it doesn't the thing that hit me i think well i want to get the cheap you know inexpensive ruger american because they run about 400 you know a little bit more but i can't shoot it i can't shoot that 400 rifle so hence that's one of the differences if i order one of these because you know most websites and gun shops have have these but they don't have a scope on them most of them some do this came with a scope or i ordered the one with a scope so that's one of the differences maybe now some really expensive rifles might not have a sites either metal sites but the ruger american is probably not going to have metal sites okay so that's one way they keep the cost down there's no no sights on it okay like this one it has really nice sights in fact i i wouldn't even put a scope on this if it were mine so you get really nice size they're adjustable they're on the barrel okay and i always like that okay so it's nice to have metal sights even if you do put a scope on there you got backup sights right just like on an ar-15 so you get you're more likely to get sights metal sights on a more expensive rifle that's one of the differences it's one way to cut costs it's one reason a lot of rifles don't come with any sorts of uh no sights yeah that's just the fact of life these days in terms of cutting expenses now another obvious difference we're going to go through the obvious concrete differences and i'll have to tell you there's a little bit of difference between the stock on these two rifles right just a little bit yeah and i'm sure you've already seen the beauty in this seiko okay this is the bavarian model scope i mean look at that i mean it looks like something i would carve hand carved doesn't it uh just a gorgeous piece of wood and as i said when you bring that thing up most people unless i think you're kind of short maybe uh i don't know you need to be a little bit taller i don't know because it feels so good to me and john just fits like a glove has a long plenty long length of pull and it's a beautiful piece of wood and that foreign and all that that's just uh that is gorgeous the checkering and it's what you get you know it's a now does any of that make it shoot better not necessarily now it has a little swell right there so what thing is chiseled out beautifully just it's just really nice the fit and the finish actually are you ready for this this is me this is my john the comedian i really like the finished finish on this that's hilarious wasn't it it is made in finland okay did you get it relatives in kentucky do you get that yeah finish finish it's got a finished finish on it okay just make sure you got it uh so yeah the uh the stock i mean it's just absolutely gorgeous uh you know i love the way it's finished speaking of finish you know it's kind of the satin and just absolutely gorgeous i mean it doesn't quite match this beautiful polymer but you know the problem with it too though by the time they they spent the time on this stock and the finish the finish finished getting it beautiful they couldn't afford to put stickers on it like ruger did so you have to buy those cost extra if you want a seiko sticker on the stock on these i think i think that's the way that works okay they're extra extra expense what else or the trigger you're gonna get a good really good trigger generally on a very expensive rifle like this it has a beautiful trigger now ruger has a really nice trigger too and ruger the ruger american is not necessarily representative of every inexpensive rifle because one thing which i hadn't mentioned yet is and many of you know this better than i do because i don't really hunt but bolt action rifles have come a long way in the last 10 to 20 years you know savage ruger various companies uh and they have really nice triggers this has a very nice trigger on it for an inexpensive rifle uh you read anything you want on your ruger america and some of the savage rifles and that both accuracy and the trigger uh have have uh moved forward leaps and bounds in the last couple of decades and for a very reasonable amount of money you get a really nice trigger so so in some ways you know it's not night and day like it used to be now in the old days it was uh there was far more difference there so we won't be fair through the ruger on that now this one does have the set trigger and that's something that you know you're not necessarily going to get you know on an inexpensive rifle when you [ __ ] it and you just push forward on it it just uses the one trigger for that and you saw in the first video with this rifle that oh man i'm not going to pull it but it you breathe on it it shoots okay so really really nice trigger and you've got even without the set you've got a nice trigger nice break and then the set trigger is extremely light all right so that's i would still say it's an advantage okay although this baby has a nice trigger yeah can we put a little more ammo in them yeah let's do that let's just put a little more ammo as i'm talking uh they both uh you got polymer that's the thing you get polymer when you're going for a kind of a bargain situation and uh this one comes i finally forgot how to get this out you push on the you push down on the mag we've been trying to force it all you do is put a little pressure on that it comes right out you do get a metal magazine you know again because of uh yeah again it's more expensive i get the right caliber here the right ammo use the right ammo i think i know some guys that did a video called that use the right ammo 270. this seiko is a 270. so you got a metal magazine is that better than a polymer magazine well i don't know glock seems to do pretty well with a polymer magazine right although there's metal in it uh you know it worked glocken somehow didn't you so uh you know you get a metal magazine bolts back and here you get a polymer magazine but it stands where it holds for all right so as everybody has learned over the years of course something's made of polymer plastic some of you would call it who hate polymer uh you know it's gonna be less expensive just that simple but uh the one thing i can't talk about uh well i can't talk about anything like an expert but i don't really like to bench rest stuff and and it just go to incredible links to to test groups at various different ranges and sort of thing but i've read enough on well both these rifles and you probably know too if you're into these these kinds of rifles which ones are accurate which ones have your reputation for being accurate which ones don't well the seiko definitely has a reputation for being accurate i'm talking inherent accuracy and of course because of the ergonomics of it it enhances that because it just fits like a glove right and the ruger american has a really uh strong reputation for being accurate even though it may not be a beautiful seiko or weatherby or whatever you want to name these rifles have established themselves as just one heck of a rifle okay so i'm not here to bash the ruger american or the savage or any of these this new generation of uh both action hunting rifles you know just kind of pointing out some of the differences what you do get on the more expensive ones are what you don't get on the less expensive ones okay and then you decide whether you rob a bank to buy one of them or not so yeah this uh i this came with a scope like i say i think this runs around six i don't know something six and a half maybe with with this particular scope um but i just need to have sights on it so i could shoot it so only reason i got one with a scope so i guess i could have just gotten the rail and stuck something on there i don't know but uh uh but the rifle itself without the scope you're talking 400 dollars get a hunting rifle and then it's up to you what you do after that okay all right let's take a couple more shots with it there's a 2 liter over there maybe i can hit it let's hit that little red plate on the left now one more bullet let's just shoot the gong what the heck all right ruger american uh it's a well-established fine rifle and uh can't mix them up because it has ruger on there right so you get a you get a three lug bolt on this thing you get more of a push feed with this one where you get a controlled feed with this one okay so let me shoot it you're supposed to be able to with this rifle kind of like a mauser you can be sideways or upside down hanging from a tree or whatever on the run and still you know get that have control of the round what else do i want to shoot uh let's put one in this watermelon before we uh run out of uh ammo as you all see that's a watermelon plant growing right there by the way and i don't know who planted it or how it got there but we'll figure it out one day let's put one on the target we've done that yet oh yeah you know what else i am done i gotta smoke one pot all right at least do that get up give me a bullet give me a bullet that's the wrong one i shouldn't have laid that there yeah 270. there we go didn't get a lot of smoke but i just didn't want to not do that all right uh so ah watermelon i just had to do that didn't i made a mess so there's some of the concrete you know differences i've talked about uh now with also with this gun not that it makes a difference some of the things maybe none of them really make that much difference in terms of of course function if you were an avid hunter you or you just want a hunting rifle a new one you would probably take just as much game with this one as you would this right uh but you another thing that i was going to point out the bolt on this one is one piece of steel it's made from one piece of steel even the handle that amazing uh it looks like there's a joint there but there's not so the handle and everything is just one one piece milled out and so yeah just one of those differences maybe nothing that's essential the other thing as i pointed out in the psycho video when you work the action on this thing it feels like a million bucks it just it just uh talk about precision it's just amazing the feel this through this gun uh so yeah it uh it ain't cheap it runs around you know 2k now i know the concept i like to bring up in these these sorts of videos is just because this firearm is maybe four times as much money doesn't mean it's four times as good right it uh and you all know the the principles of building things and uh if you've got any age on you and you bought a few different things whether it's cars or watches or shoes or anything tires whatever it might be something in order to make something and i'm just throwing out numbers but in order to make something 10 better or 20 percent better it might take twice as much money okay uh to make it four times as it or or this is four times as expensive doesn't mean it's four times as good it might not even be twice as as good whatever that means however we interpret that twice as effective durable even maybe i don't know so we all are aware of that right you sometimes you have to pay a lot more to get something that's a little better it's just the way manufacturing goes there's more hand work it can be very expensive a smith wesson 686 will probably shoot just as well for about anybody and last as long or longer than a colt python talking about an old python or new one but an old python and the python what costs twice as much off the shelf probably when they're new or more it just took takes a lot of money to get that polishing to do the the tweaking and the things that they did to the python you know a lot of handwork and that kind of thing which is very expensive okay doesn't mean it if it costs three times as much for example that is three times better it's just it's the way the economies of scale you know work so anyway pretty nice rifle now a couple of things too maybe more theoretical seiko has a rep you're paying for the reputation it's made in finland they have a reputation of making really fine rifles right uh you're paying partly for the ergonomics the looks i mean like i said when you pick this thing up it feels like a million bucks when you pick this rifle up it doesn't feel like a million bucks it just feels like something that's probably going to work though kind of like a glock you know glock or something but it just doesn't you don't get that same feel at all all right so that kind of falls under ergonomics like i said accuracy probably not enough difference for you to notice that that would make a big difference in your life when you're shooting now you people that do bench rest shooting and you're you're uh that's that's mostly what you do when you go to the range you put it on a bench and you're shooting at paper targets and you do that with every rifle you shoot chime in i don't do that i don't enjoy that some of you do and which of these rifles would you know just from your experience if you and you don't if you don't have an agenda you know or whatever the dog in the fight you know would you expect to get uh better accuracy out of if you put a scope on both of them put them both on a bench lock them into a vice or whatever and took some shots at 100 yards do you think there would be enough difference with the same ammo basically same quality ammo do you i'm asking too i'm not this is not a rhetorical question or or like an accusatory question loaded question i just really what would your opinion be do you think that there would be a significant difference between the two because what i'm hearing is the ruger american just surprises a lot of people on accuracy the their rifleman and uh and i know these are supposed to be accurate but they may not be any more accurate uh inherently more accurate than you know the ruger american so there you go so you got a push feed you got a control feed you've got a mechanical ejector on this thing it's right down there there's a groove in the bottom of the bolt supposed to be really uh secure and ejects that round no matter what's going on if you got a cape buffalo charging you you know things like that so those little things like that might might make a difference and again of course you have the pride of ownership you know maybe uh hunting is a big thing with you and you you don't mind like most of us we don't mind if it's something we really like if it's golf you know we want some really good clubs so we can't blame our inadequacies on the clubs we know we've taken care of the clubs we've got some of the best clubs same clubs tiger wood use or whoever you know so i can't blame it on them now so it's up to me i got to practice okay some of us are like that with firearms we just we just want a really nice farm we know it'll work it's going to be durable it can be accurate and then we'll go from there and uh it doesn't mean you're rich if you buy a farm like this a lot of people with average incomes they just they just uh they strive to save money to buy something they really like like a car you know think about how many people are driving really expensive cars around it's not because they're rich they just really like to have a nice car and they save up for that and that's where they put their money and so you might be the same way with with a hunting rifle you just want a really nice hunting rifle or a skeet gun that's just your thing that's what you do it's where you put your money you don't have a bass boat you don't have a lot of other hobbies and you just want to by golly you want a seiko you know to a deer hunt with or whatever it is you do and you know you don't need it you know this one would do probably the same thing but you just like one of these so anyway getting a little bit wordy i think uh probably the other differences might be things like uh i don't know the probably the the steel this probably has a cast receiver i think uh doesn't make a big difference i understand the barrels put on with a barrel nut uh ruger kind of pioneered that i think on both action rifles you got push feed uh cold hammer forged barrel you know a nice accurate barrel and i can't think of any other you know big big differences you'll mention i've got adjustable sights on this by the way you know so therefore the sights that do come on it and that's a bugaboo with some people they buy a nice rifle or any kind of hunting rifle and there's no sights on it they have no sights let's say have them put on and get them to put on so 400 bucks versus uh 2000 uh just an example i've got my model 70 out here you know this would be another rifle i need model 70 winchester they run about 1500 this one's a little higher because it's a vintage it's 364. same deal you got a really nice rifle you can tell by the feel of it the ergonomics and everything and there are a lot of really nice rifle browning and different companies with beautiful wood that made well that you could do this comparison with okay so i'll wrap it up this rifle will do whatever you probably need for a hunting rifle to do and it's just that this one or that one will do it in a prettier fashion i guess you need to say so depends on what's important to you uh both will get it done and just like that hyundai or that kia will get you where you need to go on the road but uh sometimes we uh just you know we feel like we want something that looks a little better uh maybe has a better reputation or we just like it just the way we are isn't it so 400 you'll buy that rifle without the scope uh a mere 2000 will buy this one and they'll both do the same thing right so i'll let you go i just thought i'd uh point that out and uh feel free to to add to this because those of you who shoot both actions a lot like i said bench rest them you hunt with them a lot i know you've got 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Length: 26min 12sec (1572 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 21 2020