The price doesn’t sound too bad. Were I in the market, I wouldn’t bat an eye at $1039. I have 3 Senderos. All of mine are 26” barrels, stainless fluted and have the black H S Precision stocks with gray webbing with 1 being a 25-06. All are exceptionally accurate premium rifles and among the most attractive rifles ever built, even including the pimp daddy mirror polished jeweled bolt. Should mention mine are all J-bolts btw but I’ve never found a reason to be concerned over that.
I have several rifles in 25-06 but the only other factory heavy barrel I have in that caliber is a Ruger target model. It has a laminate wood stock and 26” matt stainless barrel. The Ruger was noticeably cheaper but not inferior. For bag work, the accuracy edge goes to Remington but for a walking around rifle, the Ruger does not feel as nose heavy and even though it’s a few ounces heavier, the balance point makes it carry lighter. Both have 10 twist barrels with 100gr being the heaviest bullets I have shot in them.
IF CZ, Sako/Tikka or Thompson Center has a heavy barrel in 25-06, I’d look at them as well.
Savage would be the bottom of the barrel pick for me. I have no use for cheap rifles and marketing gimmicks. A barrel without a precision cut shoulder will never be in perfect alignment with the action face and a lock nut merely locks it in crooked, that’s plain mechanical common sense. Floating bolt head for accuracy…bs….this allows the bolt head to attempt to square up to crooked barrel. They are cheaper though and they should be, you get what you pay for.
