The ACME Model 10 XP Predator Hunter Package

The local Lake Delton Fire Department has a gun rifle as part of their fundraising every year, and every year Tom makes a  generous donation for a few tickets. Just yesterday I saw a sign about the drawing this weekend. Knowing that Tom bought tickets a couple of weeks back, I wondered what on earth we would do if he won.

This afternoon we got the call: He won the grand prize.

The Savage Model 10 XP Predator Hunter Package Brush is a bolt-action rifle chambered in .22-250 Rem., .204 Ruger .223 Rem., and .22-250 Rem. The Model 10 XP Predator Hunter Package Brush is one of 15 rifles in Savage’s Package Series. Savage Arms was founded in 1894, and is headquartered in Westfield, Massachusetts.

The XP Predator Hunter features a brush or snow camouflage gun and scope, swivel studs, and Savage’s AccuTrigger system. The AccuTrigger system features a dual-stage trigger design in which the first (vented) trigger acts to disengage a safety mechanism. Once this occurs, the second trigger can be depressed in order to activate the firing pin. The trigger assembly is also user-adjustable for weight of pull. The Model 10 XP Predator Hunter also includes a 4x12x40mm scope, mounted and bore-sighted.

Savage recommends the XP Predator Hunter Package Brush for general hunting.

 He is trying to decide whether to take the gun -- unlikely, but possible, because he likes what he has read about it; or take the cash option ($750) to pay for our Door County trip; or just tell them to keep the cash as a donation and let it be.

We discussed it over dinner with Michelangelo. Tom said we would think about it overnight and decide tomorrow, but I said I would have no more ideas tomorrow morning. So we will see what he comes up with.

BTW, Tom is a gun owner and we have a target of sorts in the back yard.

They say it is good for varmints, and in particular people use it for coyotes ..