You need to find out what kind of shooting your going to be doing and dont expect it to be cheap for competitions. I have a .204 Ruger that shoots consitant .5 in groups at 100 yards (with factory ammo)and i barely get top 10 in the tournaments at the gun range i go to. That gun with scope and everything done to it was right around $3500. Then i got a long range rifle in .338 Laupua Mag and just dont have time to reload for it so i dont know how well i could shoot.