[QUOTE=ronlaughlin;3941476]If by necessity this is just fine.

If you are a cheap skate by nature, you need to change. You need to experience the feeling one gets when one handles a fine rifle

It is not by necessity.
It is by nature.
And I'm sure you are right about the feeling one gets when holding a fine (expensive) rifle.
But I am a hunter at heart and I have been one long before I could hold a rifle. I just don't see how a more expensive rifle with better fit and finish could add to the satisfaction and excitement I get when I harvest a deer with the less expensive rifles I own. As a matter of fact, the 2 deer I harvested last year with my $275 Traditions Pursuit were just as rewarding to me as the countless number or deer I have taken with my twice as expensive Thompson center Hawkins.