I would get a trued 700 type action with a McMillan stock simply to have a good platform.
For one of my rifles I ordered a brand new Remington 700 in .30-06. I sold the barrel and stock. I had it built by a nationally known 'smith who put it in an McMillan MBR Tooley stock. It never made a group smaller than 1 1/2" at 100 yards. He rebarreled it and it still didn't shoot. I took it to a local 'smith who put on a new Pac-Nor barrel. It still didn't shoot. I sent it to Pac-Nor who did the smithing and barreling this time and it still didn't shoot. I gave it to another 'smith and told him I didn't want anything to do with it.
There is a verse in the Bible that something like, "There is a time to give up" or something like that.
