Back up plan- Help me choose/analysis paralysis

[LeftyWilbury]

and once you decide on the optic, then send it off to kampfeld to get chopped and threaded, and get yourself a suppressor if you dont have one yet. my 20" 243 is stupid-fun to shoot suppressed. and cans are getting approved nice and quick these days (unless you go the trust route, takes a little longer). you could be shooting suppressed by antelope opener!

 

[jamesmc8]

Nope. I prefer the rear PA model.

Can't find the rear PA in stock. Do the side PA models still do well from a durability and drop standpoint?

 

[Formidilosus]

Can't find the rear PA in stock. Do the side PA models still do well from a durability and drop standpoint?

Yes.

 

[TaperPin]

Get a Remington 700 .300 wm put a Leupold 6x on it, don some flannel and kill a goat!

Make sure you’re growing your beard.

I gotta admit my first thought was that combination sounds awfully good. Lol

 

[jamesmc8]

Yes.

Narrowed it down to a SWFA Fixed 10x vs a Sightron STAC 3-16x42 FFP Mil. Can get either for around the same cost. Use would be on a 223 trainer that my daughter may occasionally hunt with. What would be your pick between the two?

 

[Formidilosus]

Narrowed it down to a SWFA Fixed 10x vs a Sightron STAC 3-16x42 FFP Mil. Can get either for around the same cost. Use would be on a 223 trainer that my daughter may occasionally hunt with. What would be your pick between the two?

Mmm. The STAC would be nice to turn down to 5-6x for your daughter. However, there is not nearly the amount of use and history of long term reliability with it. Because of your daughter and it being a training rifle, between those two I would probably choose the FFP STAC.

 

[black dawg]

Narrowed it down to a SWFA Fixed 10x vs a Sightron STAC 3-16x42 FFP Mil. Can get either for around the same cost. Use would be on a 223 trainer that my daughter may occasionally hunt with. What would be your pick between the two?

Found recently, the 10x swfa was difficult for a young hunter to get on and stay on slowly moving/feeding animal at 2-300 yds. She does a fair amount of shooting, and is familiar with this gun, but with less than ideal field positions was just too difficult. Next day used a 3-15 swfa on 5x with zero issues with the same scenario.