Sure, you can buy a high end Euro rifle from $10-100K and perhaps more, but it won't be any better a rifle than a custom build or a Dakota that you can buy across the counter for a fraction as much. Pretty don't haul freight and while exquisite wood makes a pretty rifle, it doesn't necessarily make a better rifle. The newer style Euro rifles like the T-3, or the Styer Pro series with their modernistic stocks and small ejection ports are to me unattractive. That appears to be the "look" Ruger is going for with this new rifle, so I find it strange that some have objected to me referring to the Ruger as a Euro style rifle rather than an American style rifle. Clearly the look is more in keeping with a Euro rifle than an American rifle. But hey, the US government liked the 98 Mauser so much they made a copy of it as their primary military arm. By the way, actually I do appreciate some Euro rifles and I own an old straight pull Styer, a Unique "T" Dioptra, a few Brnos, and a couple of Mausers and Husqvarna bolt guns. The older Brnos, Mausers, and the L series SAKOs are all excellent rifles.
