Thread: Best $1000 budget rifle ??

Originally Posted by Mathias

Howa 6.5 Grendel, isn't this where it all started?

Yeah it did mate. I spent a bit of the weekend going round the local sports shops here in Central, no body stocks a Creedmore let alone a Grendel. Ammo is going to be a pain in the arse and I was told that no one would be interested in a Trade in later on as it was to odd ball and would sit on their shelves for years. All of which is is a fair and good point.
Both shops felt a 223 was to light as some of the across gully shots down here are pretty big sometimes.

So the old fav's were talked about.

308 / 7.08 / maybe 6.5 x 55 etc.

I want to drop a deer, maybe a Thar in the future, rattle some gongs and try some longer range stuff and maybe on very odd occasions vaporise a rabbit.

So now my thread ( should have used the old one ) has moved not only to what make of rifle but also calibre . I have a 1k for the rifle, then will get it suppressed, scoped etc.

I really can't make my mind up over 308 , 7.08 , seems like it's really just splitting hairs.