You should consider -if you can find one- the ruger 44 bolt action rifle M77/44. I've got a stainless one and LOVE IT...can shoot it, extended arm, one handed and hit a deer at river bottom ranges.

If I could find another 77/44/ in stainless I'd trade one of my levers in 375bigbore for it...

What about the Ruger Deerfield carbine isn't that one in 44 but with a better semi-auto action...???