Spend my $3000 please!!!!

[grizz19]

My 2 cents for that price is get a barreled tikka action from Oregon mountain rifles and put it in a rokstock. You’d be under your budget and have a better rifle than anything factory you could buy at that price point IMO. I have a gun in the exact combo as above and it’s the best shooting gun I’ve ever put my hands on. Tikka action, carbon barrel, and a rokstock. I came in at 2575, I upgraded bottom metal, got a brake and a pic rail which increase price. I know you don’t want to build one, but this way all you’d have to do is torque down action screws and be ready to go.

 

[Strider]

Ya what @grizz19 said. A fancied up Tikka will be better than anything off the shelf.

 

[M4Madness]

I'd buy a $1000 ish Browning and a 2-3k S&B Polar and be happy. Carbon barrels are overrated. I paid $1100 for my x-bolt fiber fusion 300prc and it shoots better than me or my buddies ever will.

I'm in the same boat as the OP, except I'm looking for a .25 Creedmoor in the $2-3K range. What's funny is that I have an S&B Polar incoming! Lol! It was supposed to arrive yesterday but got put on the wrong mail truck.