It's a nice rifle, but if it's built to shoot factory 175s, in my mind that's a bit counterproductive for something that falls into the light mountain category. You ought to take one of those nice M70s you already have and spend about the same (+/-) and build something similar. You already have a nice .280 that shoots extremely well; maybe just have a stock carved for it and then you'd have the best of both worlds: nice walnut to look at and use when the weather's good, and a bedded Bridges synthetic to bang around the rocks in the snow and rain. Just a thought.
And before you say it, I already know: "Physician, heal thyself."
"An archer sees how far he can be from a target and still hit it, a bowhunter sees how close he can get before he shoots." It is certainly easy to use that same line of thinking with firearms. -- Unknown
