I prefer "visionary."
I hope you said that with tongue-in-cheek... I'm not sure I'd want to be known as a "VISIONARY"!
: VISIONARY; n: 1: One who sees VISIONS 2: one who's ideas, etc; are impractical...
Seems to me that we have quite a lot of "Visionarys" on these pages...
For myself, if there is something I want in a No: 1, and Ruger doesn't make it, well then I just 'git er done'...
For example: I had a No: 1 in 9.3x74R years before Ruger made it. If anyone would have asked, I'd have sworn that Ruger never would. I purchased a used, cheap 1-B out of the
GUN List, then bought a 9.3 barrel blank at a Gun Show. Turned the rifle and the barrel over to a gunsmith that I know. He milled the blank tapered octagon, and fitted it to the action, installed a Qtr. Rib. And then fitted a Schnabel fore-stock that I had acquired. A custom frt. sling swivel and about a year later: Wallah: I had a No:1 in 9.3x74R. And BION, I had less invested than the later
Lipsey's Special Editions.
My point is: One can pay a lot of money for a high profile Custom 'Smith (like J. Korzinek, or Hamiton Bowen) to do your build, OR one can be patient and do it on the cheap and be very satisfied.
GH