Ruger Americans are great. $500. Creedmoor is great - 30% less recoil than a 308 and pretty flat shooting. Wind drift is nominal. Terminal capability out to 500 - although 70% (or some close number) of deer in texas are taken under 200 yards. I have one. Grendel is fantastic. Terminal capability out to 350 or so. 123 pills is what you’ll find usually. Hornady makes the most popular loads. Not as easy to find as creed. I have two. PRC - avoid. If you want to eventually utilize the same cartridge in an AR - creedmoor is ar10 and grendel is ar15. Grendel is such a fantastic round. Ruger makes the grendel in a bolt as well. I sold one a few weeks ago with an lpvo and it was sweet.
They get the 208 amax and 208 bthp in regularly. The amax is the better bullet (sd and bc speaking) but both work fine. Yes that ammo is pricey. 5.7 isn’t a rifle round nor a pistol round really. We call it a hybrid. Another 5.7 coming tomorrow prob. I’m in cedar park.
Let me know what you want and I’ll get it for you. Larue is over priced. Aero is great - I sell them all day. DD is the tits. We get them in used often and usually they’re a great deal. Pm me. I can do better than that Ruger. I’m not a huge fan of their shit. But that 5.7 is the tits.