Don't Skip looking at the Tikka's. I have owned rugers, remingtons, brownings, all great guns, but I bought a Tikka T3 light in .243 several years back and it shoots laser beams. The bolt is smooth as glass, and I use it for everything from ground squirrels with 70 grain ballistic tips to deer with 100 grain core locks and it puts them all in one inch groups, with the 70 grainers holding 1/2 inch groups at 100yards. After many seasons of use and abuse and well over 1000 rnds it still shoots. Just don't skimp on the glass, a great rifle with a crappy scope is a waste of a rifle, and you only can shoot what you can see andafter all the money spent, having your hunt ruined because you saved 200 bucks on your scope is never worth it.