Still haven't learned how to read between the lines of what you've seen in the "grocery store gun magazines" have you? Check out the problems endemic to all the WSSMs in The Varmint Hunter Magazine. The gunwriter is trying like hell to make a silk purse out of a sow's ear, but anyone with an eye towards truth can read it. For free rifles, they'll sell their souls, and sucker unsuspecting rubes. As a practical matter, in any hunting rifle, action length just doesn't matter. We're not talking benchrest here, this is a hunting board, right? Your reality check has bounced again.