Looking at Remington 700. which caliber?

[mustang_revival]

The deadliest sniper in America used .300 win mag.

[WOMACK03]

Ok, my uncle squared me away. 30.06 Springfield in the 50s. All his work (field testing, r&d ect) with the .270 was in the 70s. That's the problem with hand me down stories: they amalgamate and become blurry. Thank you gents for helping also.

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[Baron Von Crowder]

The deadliest sniper in America used .300 win mag.

they didnt have any .243 available?

[dee]

.243 >*

There a bit hard on barrels in a target environment.

Ok, my uncle squared me away. 30.06 Springfield in the 50s. All his work (field testing, r&d ect) with the .270 was in the 70s. That's the problem with hand me down stories: they amalgamate and become blurry. Thank you gents for helping also.

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No worries. Likely carried a 1903A4 or Garand Sniper rifle. The Winchester M70's didn't see much action till Vietnam.

[YALE]

Ok, my uncle squared me away. 30.06 Springfield in the 50s. All his work (field testing, r&d ect) with the .270 was in the 70s. That's the problem with hand me down stories: they amalgamate and become blurry. Thank you gents for helping also.

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If he was a career sniper, he most likely would've gone to Camp Perry matches, and the like. One of the prizes the Navy handed out for a while was Remington 721's in .270, apparently. Some others were evaluated in the '70's, but never formally adopted. The military is (justifiably) a little phobic of adopting non-standard calibers, without that caliber doing something their current inventory won't do, and really needing to get that specific task done. They also don't like fielding non-NATO calibers, when again, a currently fielded weapon will get the job done.

[ceyko]

I shoot 30-06 for my own reasons, but I'd also jump on the 308 bandwagon if I did not use 30-06 for hunting style rifles already. It's a good caliber by most standards.

[aggie97]

This is how I see it (in a BIG nutshell):

Tikka= Butter smooth action/ requires a GS to swap barrels
Savage=Not as smooth out of the box however, you can swap barrels as you please on your own.
Rem700=about as smooth as the Savage out of the box, also need a GS to swap barrels.

Well, going off some of the recommendations in here I went down to my favorite gun store and put my hands all over a Rem 700 and a Tikka T3 Lite and Hunter Lite. The Rem 700 bolt/action felt like it needed a crap ton of grease and polishing just to get it out of battery. The Tikka FELL open when the bolt was rotated. The Rem had the features I wanted with the threaded barrel but the salesman said Tikka sells a Tactical version he could get me in 5 days or so, but the price was pretty high. I also liked the fact the Tikka was 1.8 lbs lighter than the rem 700. Only regret was the shop did not allow dry firing so I could feel the trigger. I played with the accutrigger on our two savages this morning and they are ok. If the Tikka is that good or better so be it.

So, thanks for the recommendation on the Tikka. Looks like that is direction I am going to go. Just need to decide if I want a blued barrel or the stainless barrel. Since I think I would like to have the end threaded for a brake, I may just get the blued and go from there. I will probably have to have it done up in Dallas or Houston as there aren't any gun smiths to trust here in College Station. There are a couple of nice stocks out there for the Tikka but I will need to research that first.

If all goes well, I think I am going to go back and pick that one up....although they had one in .300 win mag too!