You can build a long range mountain hunter out of a Tikka t3 lite with Talley rings and a Leupold. Be 7-7.5 lbs all up and shoot factory ammo sub moa and go 700 yards no prob. .270 or 6.5 creedmoor.
Or you can spend triple to five times and reload etc etc guess it depends on what your definition of long range is. Built a Sako a7 270 short mag that shot well to 930 yards, set up to go 800 on one rotation of turret, pulled cheat sheet out to dial further. All factory again.
So pick you range, that’ll narrow down cartridges you should look at. Then weight range and features. If you want 1200 yards then 6.5 prc might be the hot ticket? Bet you could build one under 8 all up with factory everything.
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