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guys. i do think the t3 looks nice, but now i keep looking at the aics ax chassis and cant decide if it is ugly as hell or i like it. and i could just get a remy sps varmint and drop it in there. and there was me thinking that choosing a rifle would be the easy part .

I will be selling my tikka t3 stainless varmint in 6.5x55 in a Robertson tactical stock soon. If you'd be interested let me know:) 6.5x55 is a great round easy to load for and easily beats a 308 at 1000. :)

Dannywayoflife wrote:I will be selling my tikka t3 stainless varmint in 6.5x55 in a Robertson tactical stock soon. If you'd be interested let me know:) 6.5x55 is a great round easy to load for and easily beats a 308 at 1000. :)

Yes, I'd confirm that's a viable 1,000 yard combination. As others have said, Remington 700Ps and similar are good starter guns, but they really do struggle at 1k in 308. They simply don't provide enough velocity to keep bullets above the speed of sound, never mind transonic speeds beyond 800 yards.

In a strong modern action with Lapua brass, the old 6.5 SKAN can be pushed a lot harder than the 55,000 psi CIP PMax limit that is determined by the M94/96 Swedish Mausers, and even more so the Norwegian Krag. 2,800-2,850 fps for the 139 Scenar is feasible from a 26 inch barrel, which I think the T3 Varmint is (??). With an average .285 G7 BC that sees it still going at ~1,400 fps at 1,000 yards getting on for 200 fps above the speed of sound and just above the 1.2 MACH point where the transonic zone starts.

We have a 6.5X55 T3 Stainless Varmint shooter at Diggle who has won the Factory Sporter class in 1,000 yard Benchrest comps several times now, with 5-round groups well under 10 inches.

The barrel length is 24" laurie but it's a dam fine calibre and the only reason I'm looking to sell is that I'm going to order an AI with several barrels :)

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So does Danny.....

The 700 is a great rifle and with the 26" varmint barrel in .308 with decent handloads can get to 1000 yards quite nicely. If it's your first rifle and, depending on your level of experience/expertise at that distance you could do a lot worse than get the SPS, a decent after market stock, and put in lots of practice with quality factory ammo. The RWS stuff is good but I'm lucky in that my rifle quite likes the PPU Match ammo out to 800yds. Beyond that I use HPS in 175gn but my skill level doesn't do it justice.