Were I to be totally honest, I would have to say that I have never really been a fan of what could be termed “tactical” rifles. I suspect the reason for that is because I was brought up on a diet of conventional shotguns and rifles that always had wood stocks and blued metalwork. Even when serving as an armourer in the RAF, the rifles (the good old SMLE) all had woodwork, and the weapons that I worked on that were nearest to what we call today “tactical” were the Bren and the Sten gun, so the basically all-metal weapons in use today seem to me to be military rather than sporting.