Im new to the long range hunting, by long range I mean past 500 yards. I got into reloading and reloaded my old remington 700 30-06 and had a blast developing a load for it that I decided to purchase a "long range gun" My budget was about $1500 so i started looking and shopping to see if it was even possible to get a long range set up for that kind of price. The rifle I ended up getting was the remington 700 model Long Range Edition. I found it on Buds gun shop for $675. It has an m40 aluminum bedded stock with a 26" heavy barrel and a pretty decent trigger. And I topped it with a vortex viper HS LR 4-16x50 scope That I found for $500 on Ebay. I secured it with warne maxima rings and a 1 piece warne base. Total I ended up was $1,300. I developed a load with 7mm barnes 168gr LRX and I am getting 4" to 5" groupings at 700 yards, 3/4" group at 200 yards which is what I have my rifle zeroed at. The range I have set up only goes out to 700 yards but in the field I have set up milk jugs at 1,000 yards and hit consistenly at 1,000. My scope is pretty much limited out at 1100 yards but for me it works great! I shot my first coues deer with it at 340 yards last year and dont really plan to shoot anything past 700 yards and only if I HAD too. The gun is about 11 lbs. Hope this helps