true... things have improved a lot, and you can get a rifle today that will get the job done very well, for a lot less money than they used to cost.
I had not mentioned it yet, but the barrel on this .243 seems pretty smooth... can't seem to get much copper from it at all... going on 100 rounds down the tube at this point, and it's cleaning up very easily... Butch's with a few wet patches seems to get all there is in there to get...