PaulG

Don't worry about the "lean towards idiot" part. They let ME hang around here. Nuff said.

I'm just jealous that you can even consider buying that many guns.

My "Finance Director" has put a spending freeze on.

By the way, welcome to the forum.

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dwolsten

The Remington 700 is a bolt-action rifle. For shooting rabbits, that might be ok, but for anything else, I would certainly want something semi-automatic. Look into AKs, AR-15s (there are .308 variants of these I believe if you want more power/longer range than .223), M1A (Springfield Armory has a bunch of nice M1A variants), etc.

Rob72

Darn big rabbits, if you're using .308/.300WM/7mm or .270 on them. Given the parameters described, a bolt would likely be a better long-term solution. They will remain under the umbrella of legality longer. Optics are more rigedly and economically mounted. You can purchase 2(at least) excellent .308 bolts for the price of 1 genuinely useful .308 semiauto. I agree, a semi-carbine of some type would be recommended, but, in context, the bolt would see more real-time use (hunting).

Come to think of it, the Savage 110 FP is cheaper, and really (IMHO) better bang for the buck than the 700.

For +/-$250 each, you could lay in a couple of AK kits, to put together at leisure, or buy a couple of SKSs, mint. One needs to assess the trade-offs carefully, in comparison to the environment, as well.