Do yourself a favor:
Buy a decent quality bolt action 308, plan on spending $500-$800 for the gun.
Buy a very good quality scope, the best you can afford, and spend at least as much on the scope as you do the rifle. The scope is more important to accuracy than the rifle is at your point in the learning curve.
Spend the rest of the money (you would have wasted on getting a high dollar fancy rig you wouldn't appreciate or know how to use to it's potential) on a quality entry level reloading setup, brass, dies, powder, primers & bullets.
Learn how to use all of this stuff, then maybe you might realize you dont need to buy that fancy schmancy tactical crap down the road after you have spent some time behind the trigger ringing the gong a half a mile away.
Don't waste your time on a 223 for the ranges you are looking to reach, it wasn't built for that, the 308 will work much better for you.
Buy a decent quality bolt action 308, plan on spending $500-$800 for the gun.
Buy a very good quality scope, the best you can afford, and spend at least as much on the scope as you do the rifle. The scope is more important to accuracy than the rifle is at your point in the learning curve.
Spend the rest of the money (you would have wasted on getting a high dollar fancy rig you wouldn't appreciate or know how to use to it's potential) on a quality entry level reloading setup, brass, dies, powder, primers & bullets.
Learn how to use all of this stuff, then maybe you might realize you dont need to buy that fancy schmancy tactical crap down the road after you have spent some time behind the trigger ringing the gong a half a mile away.
Don't waste your time on a 223 for the ranges you are looking to reach, it wasn't built for that, the 308 will work much better for you.