This is true, however, if you did buy the tools for your first build, then your second one is cheaper. And it gets habit forming to build them.
I've built two complete so far, and an upper for a friend, and two more complete builds are on tap in the near future.
Never had so much fun and sense...
I have a Savage 111 in .300WinMag. So far I've only shot Remington 180g CoreLokt out of it. No problems, quite accurate.
Seems to me with the power available a 180g bullet is the way to go.
Understand your dilemma, but my fix was simpler and cheaper. Since they are essentially back up sights, I went with something cheap that works and holds zero, metal sights that were already equipped with an offset mount. Got them off Amazon (yeah, I know, but they do work and look good)...
Welcome to the forum!
I shoot long guns left handed, and hand guns either handed although my preference with them is right handed.
I'm very fortunate in that I can actually make either eye the dominate one. Don't know why, but it's always been that way for me.
But I've never felt comfortable...
My preference is to get the most performance for the lowest price. Not made of money, ya know?
But Nikon is the brand of scope I use, and the Prostaff's are my choice. I've got one on all 7 rifles I own.
My Ruger American's (.308 & .243) both sport the 3-9x40 Prostaff, and I am very pleased with...
Your group of guys were correct. I did the same. Started out with a DPMS Oracle 5.56. No complaints as a shooter, was totally reliable and ate everything I fed into it.
Took my first AR15 hog with it. Neck shot, and he fell after 5 steps, DRT.
But it has a very light barrel, and I wanted it for...
Are you sure price per round isn't an issue?
I looked into this also, and the deciding factor was cost of ammo, and availability.
.458SOCOM sells at roughly $3 a round. Too much for my tastes, although I loved the idea of an AR chambered for it. Basically a .45-70 in an AR platform.
.300BLK ammo...
I owned a Yugo SKS. A fine gun, proven hog killer. A bit heavy, and the balance is muzzle heavy. But fairly accurate given the round it uses isn't particularly accurate itself.
I modded it to a degree to make it more ergonomical for me.
Removed the bayonet and grenade launcher sight system...
Yep, it's dumb, and only a liberal politician could come up with such a thought, but it's the lack of a pistol grip that makes the gun, as a semi auto, legal in NY.
But someone just came out with a pump action AR, and it IS legal in NY with the pistol grip, and it has one. Go figure.
My original AR is the DPMS Oracle. It does the job on hogs.
Just built a new one of various manufacturers parts, Spike's, Daniel Defense, Wilson Combat for the metal works. And the BCG is the PSA top of the line mil-spec.
I boiled down Speedracer's comments to this. Says it all IMO.
I put the PSA top of the line Mil-Spec in mine, never a problem. And it was a really good price.
For that range, and the energy required for the game your after, the .300WinMag should do well by you.
And you will need a really fine long range scope (high power variable), and you will spend a bunch of money on it.
And no going cheap on the ammo. It has to be consistent to be accurate.
No...
I've used MI and WC lo-pro blocks. The cost difference was nearly 2x, the MI being higher. No difference in quality, both were very nicely machined, both worked excellently.
My original AR did not have the A2 sight/block, so I had no choice but remove it. But as it has been stated by others...
Point taken! LOL
Maybe you should have let us know his size right off. So I don't mind if you ignore what I said before.
But I still think the Ruger American is the way to go, and they do make it in .30-06.