You are exactly right. When I bought my rifle, I looked at Rem, Win, and Browning. In Gemco one day I shouldered all three and on a whim, closed my eyes after getting a fix on a sprinkler head. I shouldered, opened my eyes and the Remington 700 LH told me the sprinkler was "dead meat".
$169.00 later the Rem. was mine.
It is more about what fits you than anything else period.
