My advice is to move the Tikka (T3) to the top or nearer the top of your list. Once you take one out and handle it, see the fine design in all the details, feel/hear the precision in the bolt and squeeze off a few groupings of 3 under 1" at 100+ yards, you won't be disappointed. I guarantee!

I bought my first Tikka T3 .300 for Elk hunting this fall. It performed wonderfully and I brought home a nice Elk.

I'm seriously thinking of trading in a Rem 7400 .30-06 I haven't used for several years to get another T3, possibly a 270 for whitetails in northern Minnesota.