What amazes me in this conversation is that people have become 100% dependent on laser range finders to determine range.
Those funny little squiggly things that clutter up the inside of an optic can be used to estimate range, using something called the "Mil relation formula".....
When the conditions do not allow for an LRF to work properly, you can still range the target.
Back to the original question, I could be quite happy with a lite stainless Tikka T3 30-06 with and SWFA MIL/MIL fixed 10X in Talleys shooting whatever 165 or 180 premium bullet it preferred.
