There are a lot of good answers here and here's mine.
I've hunted with short barreled 308 rifles for over 30 years and my bullet of choice for any game bigger than a small whitetail is a Nosler Partition, or lately I've been using the AccuBonds, in the 165 grain size.
I've killed everything from coyotes, when the opportunity came up, to elk and have never been disappointed in bullet performance.
The 180 works fine but IMO you run the risk of a pass through with little or no expansion and inadequate shock to anchor. If you don't mind blood trailing then you're fine but I prefer to have my game drop where I shoot them to save time and all the hard work that comes with digging them out of the brush in some deep ravine.
Just one man's opinion....
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