6.5 Creedmoor Rifle

[Eight_is_enough]

I would get the 5R. I don't have one, just several older 700's, but the 5R sounds great.

One nice thing about a 700 is that it is a push-feed, and so it can easily be shot single-shot. A 700 is a great action to add a new barrel to a few years down the road, too.

 

[hooligan1]

My son picked up the Savage Tactical Hunter which is a fantastic shooter.
Pick one up and handle it before you decide to pay for another name brand.

 

[Houndog]

If you don't mind a little extra weight, it's hard to go wrong with a Tikka CTR in 6.5CM.

Plus, if you decide to go this route and then want to do PRS/long range shooting you can swap out the stock for an XLR chassis, spend $10 on a YoDave trigger spring and shoot the rifle out to 1000 yards. That's what I did with mine and its a .75 MOA rifle.

 

[epl1007]

Tikka T3