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Campfire Greenhorn
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Go with the Tikka superlite 300wm. You can load down or up as you please. 1/10 twist. Accurate and smooth as butter.
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Campfire Tracker
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Campfire Tracker
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“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away”.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery. Posted by Brad.
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Campfire Outfitter
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225 grains from a 308 case is easy….if you screw a 358W barrel on….
Sic Semper Tyrannis
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Campfire Regular
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You immediately lost me when you listed that which you considered a “big” gun! 🤔 Carry on! 😉 memtb Same here! When I saw the title of the post, my immediate thought was that a 375 Ruger might be an option to suggest as a starting point. Apparently, I was wrong... 
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Campfire Outfitter
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The 30-06 is never a mistake
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Joined: Feb 2012
Posts: 326 Likes: 1
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At range, the 308/225/2400 fps combo I suggested becomes "bigger" than your definition of a "big gun", so I guess we just need to define our terms better all around! 
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Campfire Oracle
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Campfire Oracle
Joined: Dec 2008
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Now that Tikka has updated their 30 cals to 1:10, why not a 308 T3X, add a 30-06 mag and long bolt stop, and hurl that 225 ELDM at 2400, and kill any big stuff at just about any range? The .77 BC really seems to do wonders on paper, and outrun a whole lot of bigger guns at distance...
Talk me out of it?
Thanks.
Pete Why not just get the Tikka in an '06 ?
"...the left considers you vermin, and they'll kill you given the chance..." Bristoe
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Tikka in 300 shorty. 200 grains with some pop. Only one definition of dead. 325 would be better.
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The 06 would be my alternative of course, but performance likely wouldn't be much different with that long 225 shoved so deep in the 06 case, vs being seated as it should in a long action 308.
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Why a 30 caliber bullet? Are you hunting with it and if so what?
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Is there a better step up from a Creed to fire a highly efficient bullet at reasonable velocity/recoil from a lightweight factory gun? That's how I ended up here.
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Is there a better step up from a Creed to fire a highly efficient bullet at reasonable velocity/recoil from a lightweight factory gun? That's how I ended up here. It's called any cartridge based on an 06 or 308 case. Creed ain't special. It's just another cartridge.
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Campfire Kahuna
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Campfire Kahuna
Joined: Jan 2001
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The Kreed is simply fhuqking Exceptionally Special,as it will squirt a .697 BC at 2700fps,with rather modest recoil. The '06 can't and the 308 isn't even in the same Universe. Hint.
Bullets matter wayyyyyyyyy more than headstamps ladies...............
Brad says: "Can't fault Rick for his pity letting you back on the fire... but pity it was and remains. Nothing more, nothing less. A sad little man in a sad little dream."
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Campfire Greenhorn
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Campfire Greenhorn
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The 30-06 is never a mistake This is the answer to a LOT of questions
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