Here's my opinion and then I'LL shut up.
A rifle is a tool for the most part and that's pretty much the criteria you need to use to make your decision. Black and Decker tools are fine for some people and some others will sneer at anything but Dewalt tools. It just depends on what you want to use and how you look at the purchase. There is a big difference in Black and Decker and Dewalt tools just like ere is a big difference in different rifle manufacturers. But there's obviously a market for both and there's obviously a widerange of expectations of the purchasers. You have to decide where you are on that spectrum and then buy based on your own expectations. You aren't going to war. You aren't going to starve if your rifle has a heavy trigger and you miss a deer because of it. It might boil down to e confidence in knowing you have the best money can buy. Who the hell knows, but you?
Maybe the feedback you really need is the ranges of price and quality.
BKB