I am wanting to get my first high end precision rifle. I have shot many different rifles in all different calibers but want to shoot further and with a lot nicer rifle than I am used to. So my question is, what does everyone think of building your own custom rifle vs buying say a surgeon. I was thinking either to get a surgeon remedy with the ax chassis or to build my own rifle off of a rem 700. If I built my own it would be a .300 win mag with an xlr chassis vortex razor hd scope and a Lra bipod. If I did the surgeon, it would have the same scope and bipod. I want to use the spuhr mount on either rifle and the surgeon would probably be a .300 Norma or a .338lm the 700 would be a .300 win mag until I shot out the barrel then would get trued and rechambered as a .300 Norma. I figure that the price difference would be about $2000 with the surgeon being the more expensive one. So do you guys recommend to go with the surgeon and just save up for a while or to go with my custom build and do it over time buying it piece by piece when I get the money for my next part? Also do you guys think to end up with a .338 lapua or the .300 Norma? This rifle would be used for long range shooting one day, hopefully out to a mile. I do not plan on doing any competitions so I don't need to follow any regulations. Any info or things I have over looked would be greatly appreciated and thank you.