Big Stick: I'd like to know more about what you have going on in the photos you posted - are those .223 and .22 rifles/cartridges? I'm having difficulty understanding your writing style and gleaning your meaning around your "hints." What is it that I am not "listening" to?

I've thought about the 7-08, but I already have a 6.5x55 - a CZ 550 American.

And I prefer a Mausers or Mauser-based actions.

l told my pap and mam I was going to be a mountain man; acted like they was gut-shot. Make your life go here. Here's where the peoples is. Mother Gue, I says, the Rocky Mountains is the marrow of the world, and by God, I was right.
- Del Gue