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308 Win is my all favorite big game cal for deer

Deer and I've killed elk with no problem!

And with today's bullets and powders, it IS everything the 30-06 was when it proved itself.

Does that mean the 30-06 is a 300 win magnum now??? Sounds like some 5 foot tall guy imagining he was a 6' too... Typical bigstick syndrome..

Maybe, if the 300 win mag was only 75 fps more than a 30-06. What a dumb statement.

Read his statement again there. He's right.

Those look like perfect hunting rifles to me....

That's exactly where the 308 belongs.

Yup. The '06 started with 150s at 2700 or so. That's what Teddy and Stewart took to Africa, I believe. Later, the advertised velocity was bumped to 2960 or thereabouts, but who knows what it really was. The Hodgdon manual shows lots of .308 150gr loads at over 2900. CFE223 gives a 150gr E-tip 2990, in a test barrel of course. Not too shabby.

The '06 can always go higher, of course, but the point really is that a .308 can do all the original '06 was capable of, with medium-weight bullets anyway.

Those guys are shooting 200s at 2660 out of the 308. Not bad! IIRC, they are shooting about a grain less Varget than my 155 Scenar load. Stout load with a 200.

You hit'em kinda hard with that one...

You got a laugh out of me...

The .308 will never match the '06 with heavy bullets and the '06 will never be a .300 Win Mag.

But, the .308 is a great, proven round and I really like mine.

Like my '06 and my .300 WM, too...

DF

He didn't hit anything, having missed the correct meaning of the quoted post.

And I'm 6' 2" too.

I quite enjoy the 308 win for efficiency, accuracy, and good recoil to kill power it is hard to pass up the 308 win! I went hunting in Vermont and found a old lady that used a 308 win. She had no issues taking deer, moose, and black bear with the 308 win. That's all she ever used according to her and she was quite successful at harvesting game year after year.

Easier to read now?

I have killed 90% of my big game with a 308 win. Started with 180 gr round nose. Then went to 165 gr poly tips. If I do my job it definitely does it's job.

I"ve posted this link before. Will post gain as it shows how versitile the .308 is with new bullet options, new technologies with both powder and projectile.

http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/ubb/showflat/Number/10719100

DF

Those that knock the 308 typically have little to no real BG experience with it...

Exactly....

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.



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.

Yes and read too much on the Internet and marketing in magazines, etc.....