My recommendations are as follows: White, Knight, Thompson Center, Austin & Halleck. All have excellent customer service and fine rifles.

It would be good to find out what is legal in NH before choosing a ML. That way you can purchase the correct ML for your state. Looks like you have narrowed it to an inline.

All the manufacturers listed have inlines. White is primarily a conical shooter, it will shoot sabots well, but conicals beyond excellent. I have the .451 M98 Elite Hunter, it also comes in .504 cal. Knight is primarily a sabot shooter, though I am told it can shot conicals well also. All Knights have a Green Mountain barrel, I have the Knight Mag DISC in .50 cal, from the lowest model to the highest - same quality of barrel. Thompson Center has all types of ML, the Encore and the Omega are getting the most press and attention. The Omega seems to be taking the ML world by storm and looks to be an impressive ML, accurate, not to fussy. Austin & Halleck is a solid performer and an up and comer in the ML world, I had the 420 in a satin nickle - great shooter, less than an inch and a half at 100 yrds without much effort (traded it for my Knight, needed something new to play with). Really can' t go wrong with any of these choices.

If money is an issue, resist the urge to check out CVA or Traditions. Just look at the less expensive Knight lines or look into the NEF Huntsman ($128 special order form WalMart for the blued version). You will be much happier with these rather than the soft Spanish barrels of CVA/Winchester/Traditions. Not that there is anything wrong with them... you just get what you pay for.

Check out this website for some reviews: http://www.chuckhawks.com/index2d.rifles.htm

You can also get additonal advice at huntamerica.com' s ML forums.

Another link for the new ML' er, bluelk' s ML 101 chapters: http://www.realtree.com/bluelk/index.tpl

Hope this helps.