If you want to dull the finish on a medallion then why not just buy a hunter? Same rifle and save a couple hundred bucks.

I know that you did not include the X-bolt but I would pick it long before the A-bolt. There are so many mechanical and designadvantages to the X-bolt that it honestly makes the A-bolt obsolete. It has the same 60* bolt throw, a better designed and trimmerbolt, a much better and stronger extractor, a more adjustable trigger, a center feed magazine instead of that horrid magazine on the A-bolt,a slimmer and more trim receiver, and a better recoil pad.