Originally Posted by battue
When you find out the handloads many use for their .30-06 you also find out they are really shooting a .308W.

Yep... With handloads, I can easily throttle the .30-06 and the .300H&H down to .30-30 velocities. My practice loads for the .300H&H push Crod1972's 150gr Win PP's at about 2400 fps using SR4759. Not knocking the .308. Being that I hand load, I just wouldn't gain any benefit from owning one.