In my experience and opinion the features (e.g. same barrel ask Sako, floating, smooth adjustable trigger, well styled, high quality machining, strong receiver/bolt, 1" @ 100 yds groupings fired at the factory) this is one of the best buys for that amount of money out of the box around today. You can pay a lot more for such a well manufactured accurate rifle, but I'd buy another T3 for that amount any day.