I'll probably be getting a 1903 soon, but that is not really a sporter. I'm on my school's rifle team, and I need a rifle of my own (I'm using a loaner Win52 now), and I'll be getting it for two reasons: 1. Almost everybody on the team uses Anschuetz, especially 1903s, and we win pretty much every competition we go into, and 2: My brother used a 1903 when he was on the team and couldn't really say anything bad about it, other than it was heavy. You could use it as a sporter if you wanted to, but it's about 10 pounds and has a target stock. I don't know of any current Anschuetz sporters, but maybe the 54.18 would work. They are all heavy though.