ctpa61,
You have made a wonderful choice. Consider the .308Win. to be a well behaved 30-06. I think a great place to start is the 165gr. Accubond. A bonded bullet with a high ballistic coefficient and usually very accurate. From there , your options are quite numerous, whether you hand load or not. A smaller scope in the 2.5 - 8x36, 2-7x33 or even a straight 6 power would be fine.
The very rifle you are thinking about brought home this bull last month.

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