I just put a 783 together for my wife in .308 and I am completely surprise at how nice a gun it is for the money. My wife is 5'4" 105lbs and she's shooting hers in .308 with no issues with handling or recoil. Those Supercell recoil pads work very well. The only issue I have with them is the scopes on those guns are seriously lacking so we put a Leupold VX-2 on instead. During daylight hours you likely won't have too much of an issue with them but those scopes would be frustrating during twilight.
The gun shoots around MOA with Barnes ammo. Someone above mentioned feeding issues, I've never had any with mine and in the 70+ 783s I've sold clients, no one has reported feeding issues. For $489 with a scope they're a hell of a rifle and Remington has a $40 rebate on them right now too.
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