Bump for a fine gent and Alpha package here! If I didn't have one 7 PRC I haven't even shot the first round thru yet, I'd certainly have this sent south.
Good luck with your new piece! I've always wanted a big bore (.375H&H/416Rigby/etc) but absolutely no need for one. But what's need have to do with it 😀
I think you could get a short Bat Vesper and then change the bolt face out for whatever you want.
https://www.unknownmunitions.com/product/bat-vesper-action/
Never used your method of looking at mirage to judge wind, etc., but I can say mirage is more noticeable in an ATACR than a Tangent for sure. Especially looking over grass at long range on a hot, humid day.
From what I understand, in the late sixties and early seventies in Los Angeles, Dr. J. Vernon McGee was asked by other pastors why isn't he going out to protest some of the social issues of the day. He reply was simply, "I am not called to protest everything, I am called to get out the Word of...
Alexander Solzhenitsyn gave this commencement address at Harvard in 1978 - he was boo'ed then. What would he get today for it at an institution whose motto of "Veritas"/Truth left them years ago.
https://www.solzhenitsyncenter.org/a-world-split-apart
"Many people are in a rut and a rut is nothing but a grave - with both ends kicked out."
"If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world."
Vance Havner