I bought one in .22-250 with the fullest intentions of having it rebarreled to .22-250 AI. Even with the ****** factory trigger and skinny barrel this thing shot groups that were scary small using a cheap-o wal-mart scope. Needless to say, I left the factory barrel on it. Until this one starts opening up I'll keep shooting it as stock. For $180 you're going to have an amazing deer rifle. Only two things I'll recommend is spend some of the money you've saved on a good scope and buy a rifle basix trigger kit for it. You'll have a deer rifle that you're friends would sell their first born child for after that