I'm thinking of taking advantage of the $75 rebate right now and picking up either a 10 or 11 Trophy Hunter XP package. The end game would be to build a precision gun off of the action with a nice aftermarket varmint contour barrel and aftermarket stock. My questions are:

1. What's the difference between the two? Is it just the wood vs synthetic stock?

2. Are these good models to build off of? Any gotchas that would cause compatibility headaches later with aftermarket parts? (Blind magazine is fine, no need for a DBM since I'll be single loading mostly anyway)

3. Which one? My plan is to swap out the barrel immediately but try and save up for a nicer stock (HS Precision, Manners, maybe even McMillan) instead of upgrading that right away. I know both are going to need to have the existing stock's barrel channel opened up for the Varmint profile barrel I plan on using. I have some experience with this on wood stocks (10/22 with dowel, sandpaper, and elbow grease), but haven't tried with a synthetic one before. I know the synthetic ones are flimsy, I owned a 10FP a while ago, but I guess I could always open up the channel more to make sure the barrel stays floating. Do you guys think the wood stock with the 10 TH is worth the extra $50-60 bucks, considering in around 1 year it will be swapped out anyway?

Thanks for the help guys, nice site you all have here.