Well, this was a tough decision. After a "reasonably" objective selection process I went with two rifles. The .223 ended up to be a Rem 700P LTR. The x bolt sure looked good to me although I was nervous about negative reviews. Regardless, I read a lot of positive stuff here and that convinced me to replace the old 22-250 with an x-bolt predator in 22-250. I'll be selling off a lot of guns to pay for these big .22s.