I love my .308. Mine is a Rem 700 SPS. Not exactly a light weight rifle, since it is a tactical model. Shoots extremely well. If you hand-load you have hundreds of different load/bullet combinations. There is also a company that sells accelerator sabots. Allows you to load .22 cal bullets into a .30 cal rifle. I don't remember the name of the company. Haven't tried them yet, but in the near future I probably will.