I also have been wanting to get a new bolt gun and was considering this rifle:
http://www.remington.com/products/fi...al-aac-sd.aspx
It seems to have some features of a higher end gun i.e. faster twist rate, threaded, adjustable trigger and is going for $600-650 places that still have them. The threaded feature is important to me but may not be important to others.
Would this be a good choice to get into more "precision" shooting? (Precision is in quotes because my level of precision is not going to be anywhere near what members of this board would call precision)
I don't have much experience with bolt guns other than .30-06 and my 03a3 causes me to pull my shots after a while of it beating up on me (could be the stock more so than the cartridge).
.260 rem is interesting I had heard it is less susceptable to wind drift but does it supress well?
Would .260 subsonice perform similarly to .308 subs? I assume not because it is much lighter. This is only a concern because I was originally looking at a .308because of the ability to get subsonic factory ammo.
I could not find much data on subsonic .260 so I assume it is not a good idea or has not been developed much.