Looking at picking up a rifle here in the next few days from my local Sportsmans Warehouse. I have never hunted anything bigger than a goose, but I plan to get into deer/elk next year. I have narrowed my choices down to these two rifles:
Browning X Bolt in 6.5 Creedmore
Tikka T3 Superlite in 30-06
In all honesty, I put a down payment on the T3. It was crazy light, and had a super smooth action. It's trigger was ok, and the synthetic stock was ugly as sin.
The Browning had an ok action feel, great trigger, was certainly heavier, and looked great.
I chose 30-06 because it has a proven track record of putting down elk and deer. The only reason I am having this dilemma is because the 6.5 Creedmore intrigues me so much and the Browning is the only rifle I trusted there that was chambered in that round.
The T3 Superlite in 30-06 will probably do everything I could ever hope it would and more. I am not a long range shooter or target shooter. Will the 6.5 in the Browning give me anything practical that the T3 won't?
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