I would do a Tikka stainless (or a Browning X-bolt but that might exceed your price), a Burris or Sig Whiskey scope with battistic reticle, Warne rings on the Tikka (the ones that clamp directly on the dovetail and have the recoil lug in them) or a DNZ one piece on the X-bolt. Ammo would be Federal of some sort, either 165 or 180 grain for the larger critters out west.


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