Doc7
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This cartridge has been out for years now. It seems to me like it really fulfills an optimal niche of recoil and performance for non-magnum shooters seeking a powerful cartridge with a good trajectory and an efficient (308) case.
Savage has been chambering their “Bear Hunter” rifles in this cartridge and now the MSR-10 AR-10 platform rifle is also chambered in it. However even Montana RC which typically offers rifles in a huge number of cartridges isn’t offering their new X3 in it, and Winchester has not chambered it in any of the Model 70s.
I find the cartridge really interesting, as a recoil sensitive shooter who is building a rifle battery and I think it would be fun to build it out of all 308 rifles: a 243 in Model 70 Featherweight Compact, a 7mm-08 Tikka T3 Lite SS, and a 308 and 338 federal in as-yet-undetermined rifles. I’ll probably build the 308 in some sort of “long-range/tactical” configuration as a fun project as I think I would be covered on all my hunting needs with a 22, 243, 7-08 and 338 Fed.
Savage has been chambering their “Bear Hunter” rifles in this cartridge and now the MSR-10 AR-10 platform rifle is also chambered in it. However even Montana RC which typically offers rifles in a huge number of cartridges isn’t offering their new X3 in it, and Winchester has not chambered it in any of the Model 70s.
I find the cartridge really interesting, as a recoil sensitive shooter who is building a rifle battery and I think it would be fun to build it out of all 308 rifles: a 243 in Model 70 Featherweight Compact, a 7mm-08 Tikka T3 Lite SS, and a 308 and 338 federal in as-yet-undetermined rifles. I’ll probably build the 308 in some sort of “long-range/tactical” configuration as a fun project as I think I would be covered on all my hunting needs with a 22, 243, 7-08 and 338 Fed.