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Message: <blockquote data-quote="swampratt" data-source="post: 3950738" data-attributes="member: 15054">An AR feels awkward when I try and hold on something farther than 150 yards.I can hold a bolt gun well and chalk that up to the dropped stock  and the scope not being very high above the bore centerline.So when you say you want one to reach  game farther than the 300 BO I would ask can you hold one steady at long distances better than you can a bolt gun.I reload and I have seen the brass from an AR and most of the time it is lost in the weeds.I shot a scoped   AR 10 in .308 seeing if it would shoot tight groups and 200 yards is all I wanted to try and hold steady at.It grouped great but it took a long time for me to steady it before I pulled the trigger.I suppose a bipod would sweeten things if you can hunt with one of those on the rifle and use it for how you hunt.I love my .308 bolt gun not my 6.5 Creedmoor though. It is ok but  not what I thought it would be.I like my 6.5x55 much better.Not AR's though.</blockquote>