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    Trying to decide on a new rifle

    Woops. I would like to apologize for asking a dumb question. I did not do my part and look into the differences in bolt faces for a 6.5 creedmoor to a 7mm-08. There is none. So to make my switch all I need is a new barrel (maybe a new barrel nut), a set of go and no-go gauges. I might get a...
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    Trying to decide on a new rifle

    That was one of my arguments to building from the ground up - the RPR I have is also in 6.5 (fortunately? the barrel is coming to the end of its life as the groups are starting to open up a little.) and like you said it is heavy. For hunting it will only be used a couple of times a year so it...
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    Trying to decide on a new rifle

    So after some discussions, research and looking over a budget...It looks like I will be converting my Ruger Precision Rifle over to 7MM-08. While this can reach the 1K mark for target hunting past about 500 yards is iffy (to my mind,). So I will have to limit myself to 400 yards or so, and to be...
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    Trying to decide on a new rifle

    I agree that the research into a new rifle or caliber is fun. I can be frustrating when you think you have it dialed in and discover you missed something. As I research this project I think you might be right. Either I will have a rifle that can be ethical at 500 yards or I can have one that is...
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    Trying to decide on a new rifle

    I hadn't even though about adding weight to the handgaurds. Thanks!! I do think my requirements are shifting a bit. The recoil, I think, can be helped with a limbsaver or similar on the buttstock (part of why I wanted an AR platform , 3 different people shooting the rifle) and with your idea of...
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    Trying to decide on a new rifle

    Your comment about the AR platform not being ideal, is that due to the excess wiggle in a semiauto or the platform itself? The 6.5 is sounding better all the time, I do keep thinking about the heavier bullet having better terminal performance. But you do make a good point, if I can't hit the...
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    Trying to decide on a new rifle

    That is an excelent point and one had had not really put much thought into. How do I define light, medium and heavy recoil? From the 1 6.5 Creedmoor I shot it felt like a lightish recoil more than the 223 but nothing bad. It did have a brake on it so that could have been a factor. 308 is not a...
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    Trying to decide on a new rifle

    Thanks for the list. It does seem that the Creedmoor is the preferred choice.
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    Trying to decide on a new rifle

    Sorry if I came across as defensive, I didn't mean to. Honestly the only time I would be using this to hunt past 150 yards would be when I go back west for family hunts. Here in central Tennessee there are not a lot of 500 yard open areas for hunting. The gun safes are getting full and the wife...
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    Trying to decide on a new rifle

    I have read some good things about the Creedmoor, I have also heard that they really are just a paper puncher and steel ringer. It does seem that the 6.5 Creedmoor bullet weights are on the lighter end of the two I was looking at, not sure how much that matters at the point of impact other than...
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    Trying to decide on a new rifle

    Not nessessarily inexpensive. I don't mind paying for the quality especially if I am building it, since I can spend a couple hundred here and there and over a 3 - 6 month period have the rifle completed. I would like to keep the costs down, mainly because it is a hobby for me. If at the end I...
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    Trying to decide on a new rifle

    Hi all, I am interested in a new rifle caliber. Ideally I want it to be accurate (sub MOA from the rifle, my skills are a bit rusty so the rifle will out shoot me for a while) out to 1,000 yards and be big enough (do most people still use the Energy to determine if the round has the potential to...
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