Here's a little onehorse gun ownership history: Over the years, I've owned LOTS of different rifles, handguns and shotguns, but never anything extraordinarily expensive. If I wanted to try something new, I had to say goodbye to one of the older ones because I just couldn't afford to keep buying. The good part to that is I learned an awful lot about a lot of different guns; the bad part is that, right now, I'm sure sorry that I sold some of those guns, and I wish I still owned some of them. The other bad part is that every time you sell a gun, you loose some of your initial investment - unless the value goes up - which does happen, but is rare. My advice is buy what you can afford, and hang on to the ones that work well for you. Yes, the "feel" is important in trying to determine if you should buy the gun in the hopes that if it feels right, it will work right. But if the guns you already have work right, forget about the feel. You are already past that part of the process. A deer killed by a decent mid-range rifle is just as dead as one killed by a custom-made one. Having said that, man, would I like to buy a Sako or a Kimber, maybe one of those Christensen fiber-barrel rifles, or ...... Here we go!
