I have had several over the years. Some know that the 788 has the fastest lock time of any factory firearm.
The barrel tenon is very long on the 788, and if you look at the barrel out of the stock, it is not a whippy barrel at all.
I have had 4. Everyone of them were a tack driver. I usually shot a 55g Sierra lead tip blitz with about 34g of IMR 4895 and a federal primer, this load is NOT fur friendly,22/250 of course.
You can re spring the trigger and it will help tremendously on the trigger pull.
Check the crown for dings, float the barrel, bed, tweek trigger, you will have what shoots like a custom rifle in many cases.
I called my last one old ugly, but it killed like a laser beam!