They could have dropped a good bit of weight by going to a blind magazine like the Montana, but you'd still have a pretty big hunk-o-steel left.
Let's face it, a solid, accurate rifle for $300 is going to attract a lot of ordinary hunters and shooters. I'm largely done with buying stuff, and plan on concentrating on making good use of what I have, but might well go to a RAR if I needed to replace something in order to utilize the investment I have in a particular cartridge. Heck, they're cheaper than a new barrel, even a lot of Encore barrels.
