My father designed a machine gun and the gov provided many crates of belted 308 ammo. Every 5th round was a red tipped tracer.

So our father bought us brothers a 1969 Sav99 308 used in 1973.
I still have the Sav 99, the crates of ammo are gone.

I was building 308 FAL rifles in the 1990s.

I bought a 308 Reamer in 2002 and started converting surplus Mauser rifles to 308.

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Used my 308 reamer again.
Yesterday I finished building my "low budget rifle"
$45 +$5 tax pawn shop Arisaka 99 orig 300sav springfield barrel, I converted to 308
$17 delivered bipod from Amazon
$3 delivered rings from Ebay
$2 + $2 for Weaver #45 and Weaver #47 bases
$6 delivered Allen ammo pouch Amazon
Synthetic foam packing material under pouch to make cheek rest from garbage
Steel recoil lug abutment I milled from scrap steel
Steel rear pillar from 3/8" steel tubing on hand.
I drilled and tapped (4) 6-48 holes in receiver with tools on hand.
Devcon steel putty around pillars and scope bases, from material on hand.
Uncle Mike's swivel studs from material on hand
Simmons 2.8x10 scope from rifle take off junk pile
Leather sling from rifle take off junk pile
12 ounce doggone rear bag from rifle take off junk pile
Pachmayr recoil pad from rifle take off junk pile
Slip on limbsaver recoil pad not attached, not a line item
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$80 invested
Whatever I shoot with it in 2016, the tag cost more than that.

There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. -Ernest Hemingway
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.-- Edward John Phelps