I tend to agree. Unless you can find a Whitetail Hunter model out there, I'd go with Browning.
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Danny
Life Member, North American Hunting Club
Life Member, National Rifle Association
Life Member, Buckmasters
Oklahoma Hunter Education Instructor
I currently have two Browning stainless stalkers and they're both my favorite guns.However,I just bought my second T3 and I've also owned two whitetail hunters.The T3's are great guns for the money and are consistantly accurate.
I'd go with the Tikka T3 Hunter before any of the other rifles mentioned. You won't find another rifle out there with the quality manufacturing, features, out of the box accuracy for the money. Finns have been hunting for centuries. They know hunting and they know how to manufacture a heck of a rifle.
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MinnFinn
"Now there you go again..." "I'm not going to hold your youth and inexperience against you." -- Ronald Reagan
I believe your just going to have to take a chance. Thats just the way it is with gun buying. I know people that says they hate the brownings, but I have the best luck. People on here claim "benchrest" accuracy every shot with their Tikkas, but I didn't have such luck.