RE: Ruger or Savage hunting rifle
If price is a factor, then you do not NEED a new rifle.
I have written many posts about how my dad - for a few dollars more, could have bought a new Winchester Rifle back in 1955 - vs. a 721 Remington.
Now the Remington is worth about $350 and the Winchester would have been worth about $1000
The difference in price at the time was probably $20 - or half a weeks pay at Mininum wage back then.