I was looking at them one day at Scheels all sports. I was looking at the light weight Browning auto loaders. The salesman actually told me that the light weight rifles won' t stand up as long or last as long as the regular ones. Don' t know if he just wanted to sell me something different or what. My brother has one and it has worked great but he only shoots it 10 times a year at most. There will me some here with more Browning expierence that I have. I did have a BLR in 7mm08. Not the light weight though. Mine shot well. Great caliber. It would not however handle reloads very well. I had to shoot factory ammo in it. For woods hunting I think it would be a total toss-up between the two you mentioned. I now have a 308.