I recently bought my wife a Browning A-Bolt Micro Hunter with 20" barrel(available in .243 Win; 7-08; .308 Win)....it's a great shooterwith good balance. I've got several nice rifles but whenever I pick up her gun,it just says "put me to your shoulder and shoot"...I can't touch it without shouldering it...and for icing it's a good looking and proportioned gun as well.

If she wasn't left-handed, I'd be finding a reason I needed to hunt with it....as it is, I'm going tohave to go get another one for me!!!

Picked hers up for $599 at a major sporting goods store...