I'm right there with ya. I have the R-15 in .223 and it is great. I wanted to buy both last year when I got it. But $ is tight. At the local Dicks Sports by my house they had a .308 R-25 for $1100.00, I almost just slapped it on the old C.C. but the wife would have shot me with that gun.
So I am saving for one right now. I am hoping that by late summer I will own one.
Nick