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what are you lookin for.
your willing to or atleast your willing to think about spending 1000 on a rifle???
this leads me to belive you might be willing to build something.. alot of times the end result is great better than your average rifle of the shelf by quite abit and would fit you and suite your needs because you built it to them.
as far as hunting rifle go i think thee realy pretty much all the same, most all sporter weight rifles weigh 7-7.5lbs, come in either walnut and blued, laminated stainless. and have either 22 or 24" barrels depnding on caliber.
then all the same companys make the compact or ultra light models that weigh less than the sporters. usualy in the 5.75- 6.5lb range. these rifles are offerd with 16.5-20" barrels.
in my opion it doesnt realy matter what manufacture you go with the selection is hunting rifles is fairly bland, and all compare pretty close to eachother. exscept more often then not the more exspensive hunting rifles off the shelf will be out shot by the less exspensive rigs, go figure that one.
in a hunting rig i would not stray from ruger, savage, winchester and rem. i dont see any need to looking anywhere else. ive got 3 of the 4 and all are very good. savagebeing the one ive never tried.
the way i see it is you can build a custom or get one of the 4 off the shelf and bang the livin dailights out of it every year hunting because thats what hunting rig is truly meant to be used as, a tool to hunt with not something purdy on the wall. then after years of hard work and ounce that barrels good in broke in it would be worth screwing a custom tube on along with the stock of your choice.
this is what my plans are for my 2506, use and abuse it for bout another 5 years atleast ounce accuracy fades off ill screw a tube on it one stepp bigger in counter and have it fluted. itl still weigh the same. but give me a tighter chamber. and also be a touch stiffer.
those are the plans, i doubt ill shoot out anything else, i dont shoot my other calibers near enough to warrant even thinkn about shooting them out.
good luck and keep us posted, sorry if i strayed off subject.
Evan
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