My first choice these days is a very slick, well tested M70 Classic in .308. It wears either a 1.25-4X VX-R Patrol or a 4X, FXII Leupold.
If I were starting from scratch, it would be an M70 Classic SA with the same MPI Kevlar stock that the above has but it would be a .257 Roberts, or a 6.5 Creed. E