My son was a smallish boy growing up. I took a Tikka T3, trimmed the stock, stuffed plastic sacks in the stock's butt, put a Conquest 3-9x on it, and downloaded 120 BT's to 2700fps. It was a very mild kicker, and a flat out game killing machine up through mule deer sized game, including many aoudad when we were pissed off at 'em and culling on friend's ranches. With today's bullets available in the 6.5CM, I don't see a bad choice between the two, especially if you will add a suppressor.....makes 'em both a real pussycat.
Last edited by JGRaider; 12/07/22.
