Tikka T3 Lite .308

[GJM]

http://www.midwayusa.com/65-creedmoor/br?cid=20296

Good, inexpensive factory ammo.

[Lost River]

The recoil is not a problem IME.

I'm waiting for this one:

http://www.fieldandstream.com/blogs/...et-a-new-rifle

That rifle just CALLS to me. If I could switch the UBER expensive SAKO mags with AI mags it would be perfect. In fact, I may build something that is fairly close to that in the future. Sort of like a Tikka T3 version of a Ruger Scout Rifle.

[GJM]

That rifle just CALLS to me. If I could switch the UBER expensive SAKO mags with AI mags it would be perfect. In fact, I may build something that is fairly close to that in the future. Sort of like a Tikka T3 version of a Ruger Scout Rifle.

Me, too. Funny thing is I recently read an article on this group in "Up Here," a magazine on the Yukon and NWT area of Canada.

[littlejerry]

I wasn't aware Tikkas were available in 6.5 Creed.

Debating between this and a Howa 6.5 Grendel...

[LSP552]

That rifle just CALLS to me. If I could switch the UBER expensive SAKO mags with AI mags it would be perfect. In fact, I may build something that is fairly close to that in the future. Sort of like a Tikka T3 version of a Ruger Scout Rifle.

Me too!

[HCM]

I wasn't aware Tikkas were available in 6.5 Creed.

Debating between this and a Howa 6.5 Grendel...

New this year. they previously offered .260 Rem.

[HCM]

Slightly more case capacity in .260, but need to buy expensive Lapua brass. I've heard some say that the steep shoulder helps wring a few more rounds out of barrels in 6.5CM, and that .260 feeds slightly more reliably.

Enough to make 260 preferable to 6.5 for an AR-10?

[ranger]

Check out the Weatherby Vanguard S2 in 6.5 Creedmoor - that is the direction I went. Luckily, PSA had a big sale on Hornady 6.5 CM earlier this year and I loaded up on Superformance 120 GMX and 129 SSTs.

[Clusterfrack]

Enough to make 260 preferable to 6.5 for an AR-10?

That's a good question, and not one that I can answer with any confidence. I would ask GAP or another top builder of precision gas guns.

For me, reliability trumps other considerations.