Good call on the 6br- thought long and hard about that one.

Being mostly a hunting rifle I think we'll go with the 243 as it has a little more boiler room for the heavy bullets and feeds well without modifications while giving up what will be a marginal amount of accuracy. Plus, like 390fe said she knows and is comfortable with the round and that kind of confidence is priceless.

Will be posting more on stock and optics options soon- hope everyone that has helped so far will chime in there as well.