If you want wanlut/blue the Winchester Fwt is the only "Classic" hunting rifle option in your price range that I'd recommend. Nothing at all wrong with Tikka, but even the wood/blue rifles are a modern take on a hunting rifle. In fact if you were looking for SS/Synthetic under $1000 Tikka is what I'd recommend. They are going to be the lightest option under $1000, AND the most accurate rifle under $1000. But the modern features are not to everyone's liking. And that is OK.
If you can find a way to up your budget the Kimbers in walnut/blue are nice too.
My personal go-to rifles are SS Winchesters in McMillan stocks and a SS KImber. They get used hard in rain, snow, freezing weather and mud. The Winchester EW gets my vote as the best out of the box all around rifle. But not everyone likes SS/Synthetic.
I have never seen any benefit of CRF. I have turned a 700 upside down and chambered rounds without a hitch.
Any rifle will chamber upside down. Controlled round
FEED. is a misnomer. They don't
FEED any better than any other rifle. The advantage is a much more robust, rugged, reliable
EXTRACTION and
EJECTION system. A CRF rifle will extract and eject rounds even after the rifle has been abused or is filthy. It doesn't take much debris in the bolt to make the ejector fail in a PF rifle and the tiny extractors will sometimes break when sticky rounds have to be pulled out of a chamber.
Most people today pick up a rifle out of the safe, hunt in good weather and return the rifle, after cleaning it, back to the safe at the end of the day. CRF is an advantage for guys who spend days at a time in wilderness settings where the rifles may be dropped in muddy rivers and still be relied on to function. People who hunt dangerous game overwhelmingly choose CRF because they are far more reliable under adverse conditions. Under normal conditions, with relatively clean rifles there is no difference. All 3 photos below were taken in either rain, or snow conditions and the temperature in the last photo was in single digits. I've had moisture inside the actions freeze up that would stop a PF rifle from working. But the CRF action was able to still extract and eject the rounds.
Winchester Classic Sporter 30-06 McMillan Edge stock. 7 1/2 lbs as shown
Kimber 308 6 1/4 lbs as shown
Winchester EW 308 McMillan Edge stock 7 1/4 lbs as shown