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So right now I have 5 308s that are i guess mid range price wise..........I have 2 tikka T3x lites, a tikka T3X CTR, Begara B14 HMR and finally a remington 5R, all in 308. I also have a Savage 10T in 6mm creemoor. What I am mulling is this........selling all my rifles and the scopes, and getting down to a really nice 308 and alpha glass and a nice 6mm creed with alpha glass as well. I currently have a nighforce NXS 2.5-10x42 that is on my 6mm creed. I was thinking of picking up another night force NXS and buying something like a Montana Rifle company or a fieldcraft in 308 and 6mm creed and being happy with fewer guns, but better quality.........crazy or not?
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Crazy? Only you can decide if that's crazy for you or not. There was a time I had multiple 270s, multiple 30-06s and multiple 308s. I sold off what I wasn't using and have no regrets. I think you'd be fine with that plan. Seems like some solid logic, you know...until the next new rifle enters the picture and the loony kicks in.
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What I am mulling is this........selling all my rifles and the scopes, and getting down to a really nice 308 and alpha glass and a nice 6mm creed with alpha glass and being happy with fewer guns, but better quality.........crazy or not? I've tried this.....several times.......it don't work.......
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I went that way myself and never looked back at selling off the me too type rifles that line all the used racks. I read about lots of the guys here having and using lots of different rifles, but that isn't me as I like the familiarity of having my main one. Paying four numbers for a high end Euro scope offended my Scottish heritage some, but now ever time I look through one of those scopes it is like a wow experience especially in low light conditions. I guess that I wouldn't shoot them all enough to completely familiarize myself with all their idiosyncrasies and different operating systems.
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So right now I have 5 308s that are i guess mid range price wise..........I have 2 tikka T3x lites, a tikka T3X CTR, Begara B14 HMR and finally a remington 5R, all in 308. I also have a Savage 10T in 6mm creemoor. What I am mulling is this........selling all my rifles and the scopes, and getting down to a really nice 308 and alpha glass and a nice 6mm creed with alpha glass as well. I currently have a nighforce NXS 2.5-10x42 that is on my 6mm creed. I was thinking of picking up another night force NXS and buying something like a Montana Rifle company or a fieldcraft in 308 and 6mm creed and being happy with fewer guns, but better quality.........crazy or not? I think that's the smart play. For me, I'd rather have fewer, higher quality rifles and just spend "gun money" on hunts/trips.
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It sounds rationale to me, but only you can decide if it's crazy. You'd have everything covered to hunt anything in NA with those calibers.
We have enough youth, how about a fountain of SMART???
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You can only shoot one rifle and have another for a back-up, sell the rest and put the proceeds toward a hunting trip. After this fall's whitetail trip that's what I plan to do, I'm already down to one handgun and plan to get down to one RF and a couple of CF's and a shotgun.
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One of those chunky 308's would be nice to have for farting around.
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I would think you would be fine with doing that for one reason...you seem to enjoy those 2 calibers. Myself, I would have a hard time with it because I enjoy shooting different cartridges and some of them in HTF factory ammo. But it sounds like you would probably be fine with 2 rifles rigged out like you are talking about.
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You can only shoot one rifle at a time, why not make it a nice one.
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You can only shoot 1 at a time is true. But when I go to the range with 1 gun I find myself waiting for the barrel to cool more than shooting. Just my opinion .
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So right now I have 5 308s that are i guess mid range price wise..........I have 2 tikka T3x lites, a tikka T3X CTR, Begara B14 HMR and finally a remington 5R, all in 308. I also have a Savage 10T in 6mm creemoor. What I am mulling is this........selling all my rifles and the scopes, and getting down to a really nice 308 and alpha glass and a nice 6mm creed with alpha glass as well. I currently have a nighforce NXS 2.5-10x42 that is on my 6mm creed. I was thinking of picking up another night force NXS and buying something like a Montana Rifle company or a fieldcraft in 308 and 6mm creed and being happy with fewer guns, but better quality.........crazy or not? I went through this for the last 5 years or so. I as at the point of adding another safe so that kinda forced the issue. You are entering another rabbit hole though. That NSX compact is nice, but so is a S&B, Khales, Swarovski, etc. Also if your only going to have one gun, why not go for a GAP, or TacOps, or AI, or DTA? Its a never ending cycle.
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