Just my $.02 but it sounds like you have a rifle to hunt with so this isn't any real emergency. From your post it sounds as if you have a hankering for a pretty nice rifle and a rar or something similar would be settling. I've done that in the past and never really kept any of those rifles as the thrill of something new wore off. I guess we all settle to an extent as demonstrated by the absence of any graded Fox or Parkers small bores in my safe but I think you will be happier waiting for what you really want.
Only hurry is the availability of the cheap Marlins, if that were the way I wanted to go. One of those could easily be fitted with a CM barrel by say, Shaw, and the original kept as a spare. You're right about settling, though. Was thinking the same thing myself.
