Thank you Sheridan for the support and for the links! I am currently at work right now but was able to browse the links you posted. They all seem like nice rifles and I will be looking into them more once i get the time. To Murdy, for right now I do plan to hunt whitetail exclusively as that is all that I have ever hunted. I would like to hunt different game later on though. I will check out the .308 for sure, thanks again!