VA,
Yeah, you're right about wanting something different. I hate that I am currently suffering from financial embarrassment, or I would have relieved Shootinurse of the SantaBarbara 7x57 in the classifieds here recently. It would have been eventually turned into an 8 of some stripe.

"The number one problem with America is, a whole lot of people need shot, and nobody is shooting them."
-Master Chief Hershel Davis