Art Eatman
Moderator In Memoriam
Seems to me that the idea of a 16" carbine-length barrel woulld pretty much negate the primary benefit of the .243--velocity, so of the two choices I'd pick the 7mm08. I'm happy with mine.
Nothing inherently wrong with a rather-short .243; my 19" Sako has let me put tags on 20 pretty decent bucks with the little Sierra 85-grain HPBT. Ignorance is bliss, of course; nobody ever told me you couldn't hit the white spot out beyond a hundred yards. The 55-grain load works well on prairie dogs, I discovered last year.
Nothing inherently wrong with a rather-short .243; my 19" Sako has let me put tags on 20 pretty decent bucks with the little Sierra 85-grain HPBT. Ignorance is bliss, of course; nobody ever told me you couldn't hit the white spot out beyond a hundred yards. The 55-grain load works well on prairie dogs, I discovered last year.