Guess it would help if I read the the bottom of the post as I somehow missed the target shooting only? I think both are plenty good enough for target shooting, my litttle 7-08 consistently shoots sub moa and so did the .25-06s I owned, the one .25-06 was a remington model 700 I had custom built by benchmark barrels and it would shoot a dime at 100 yrds, the other was a stock tikka t3 and it shot an inch group at 100 yrds, I am an avid handloader and have been for 25 years, I have found both the 7-08 and the 25-06 to be very accurate and very worthy of target shooting.