I have a lightweight 6.8 SPC with an 18.5" barrel built on a 700 in an Edge Mt. Rifle stock that will be my kids first deer gun. It is such a great WT rifle with little recoil, low blast, and thumps deer. I have shot a bunch with it, then my sister borrowed it a few years ago for hunting and I have to beg her just to "borrow" it back when I want to take it out! She loves it as well. The cartridge is dynamite for 250 yards and less but really is fun to hunt with.