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    Quote Originally Posted by wnoteboom View Post
    Thanks everyone! I really appreciate the expertise. Today I got myself a Tikka .308 (one of the strata ones) and a Leupold VX-5HD. Stoked with it! May it serve me well for many years!
    back when I lived in the windy city the upper hutt NZDA arranged a shoot at the Trentham range out to 600 yards - the best shooting of the day was by a guy with a 308 T3! he put those of us with our 7 magnums and the like to shame
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    Quote Originally Posted by grandpamac View Post
    Greetings,
    I bought my first new rifle in the late 1970's. It was a Rem 700 .308. It is still here and it is not going anywhere.
    QED.
    Grandpamac.
    For these not familiar with QED, roughly translated from the Latin it says "All that was set out to prove has been proved".
    Hopefully you still have yours in 45 years.
    45 years ago I brought my first rifle a .22 rimfire Toz - 17 it cost me $49.50 from Ian Ballangers Victoria St CHCH. Still at school so worked for my Dad on weekends filling up waste takers (called skips now - the big ones) rubbish on construction sites- $5 per ship.

    Great wee rifle really accurate and I shot a lot of tree eating $%#$%#% goats in Marlborough sounds - when it came to tree planting mum used the point and dig approach - she would point and I would dig and plant the tree. Next time we went to the Bach the goats had turned the tree into a stick

    So I got my 22 and declare war on the $@$@ goats and shot every single one I could find - 40 gn solids slipped into the ribs behind the shoulder right where there diaphragm is and they did not go far before tipping over. Sold the Toz sadly got one of those Chinese Jw15's now - Toz better in my view.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wnoteboom View Post
    Thanks everyone! I really appreciate the expertise. Today I got myself a Tikka .308 (one of the strata ones) and a Leupold VX-5HD. Stoked with it! May it serve me well for many years!
    excellent- I have same in 300wsm, fantasteek setup.

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    Yea both of my magnums got the flick, now have settled with the 280ai and 284win as my two go to rifles. The mags kick the shit out of ya if it's as light as say a tikka t3. A 308 or 3006 would be great as a first hunting rifle and youl get more bang for buck behind the trigger. Once youve mastered that look at maybe having a crack on a mates magnum to see if that's the direction you want to go.
    Cursed be the ground for our sake. Both thorns and thistles it shall bring forth for us. For out of the ground we were taken, for the dust we are... and to the dust we shall return.

 

 

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