Skrux great post & your English is much better than my Croatian & a lot of peoples English for that matter !

Thank you for posting, good to read it .

If I was you I think I would look to one of the low grade Sabatti 92's in 9.3X74 I have seen these for sale in the US for less than $2000 & every write up I have seen on these & the 45/70 has been favourable, I was going to get one my self, but I would just not use it enough, not like you.

I don't think the 9.3X74 has enough recoil to worry about unless you are a child or female, more so if shooting at game with it !

Keep up the good work & thank you for posting on the forum !