If you have $2000 and you want something really nice that's different, I'd suggest buying a Yugo Mauser from Samco. Then get you a Boyd's stock for it, and send it to ER Shaw with instructions to bend the bolt, Drill and tap for scope, install a Timney Trigger, and a Beuler Safety, and rebarrel it with a Stainless barrel in the caliber of your choice. If it's me it would be a 7x57, a 6.5x57, or a .257 Roberts. How's that for different? Anyway, now you'll have about $1,000 in it and this leaves you plenty of money to buy good glass and mounts of your choice. OR, you can also beat the bushes of the LGSs and pawn shops for a good used doner rifle in like a Howa 1500, a Remington 700, or a Savage of your choice preferrably with accutrigger. Then you can send that off to Shaw and most of the work's already done, like trigger, safety, bolt and drilled and tapped. Then it will probably come with a stock too. I'd go with the Mauser, but that's just me, I love em.