If you want something you will cherish for the rest of your life and remember your grandmother by get either the Winchester, or put a little of your own money with it and get a Kimber. If the $1000 has to include optics get a Ruger Hawkeye.
My advice is to stick with 30-06, 308, 270 or similar all purpose round because it will be a rifle you can use all the time. Anything bigger will be only used on those very rare occasions when one of the others is not enough.
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