Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Ask The Gunwriters Is there any LOVE for the .308?

You don't say where your neck of the woods is, but, I still see plenty of them in PA where many hunt both deer and bear.

The .308 just works, no fuss, no muss. A 165 grain Hornady puts a solid hole through deer and they fall over with little meat damage.

When I started hunting, my favorite uncle used a Remington 600 Mohawk in .308. I started with a .243; but, when Remington brought out the Model Sevens in .308 30 years ago, I bought one of the first ones with my high school graduation money. My father quickly bought one to match it. The guns are short, light and extremely handy in blinds and brush and have impressive accuracy.

The .308 is a Rifle Looney's curse however! That .308 has kept me from buying a lot of new rifles in fad calibers because I know when deer season rolls around, I couldn't stand to leave the little .308 behind!

I've got a couple 308s, excellent all-arounders. I enjoy shooting them long distance at inanimate objects, but would have no hesitation using them on any local big game species.

Bullets are out there for most any application. Here are some I use,






The rifles,

Very nice rigs and recipes Shane.
Shot the 308 a lot and if l had to one gun it here in NA l would not hesitate to go with it.
So versatile and capable of fantastic accuracy.
Just a great round.

Simply gets it done, what more do you want. Sub MOA always in my rifle, loves the 155 Scenar over Varget.

Long before I started reading internet rifle and hunting forums, I was a 308 user. I know now that my Sako, with a Leupold 2x7, shooting POS cup and core bullets is a great handicap but I was happily killing stuff pretty dead with it.

And it easily kills stuff bigger than deer if you do your part.

I've done well with the 308 over the past 40 years including Africa three time and 28 animals up to 800lbs. I could be very happy with only a 308 in my future.

Lots of love here. After all, it's just a rimless 303 British!

I have always loved the cartridge. Didn't own one til I was 18 y.o., but there were a couple of friends and family members that had them.
Always seemed to me that the .308 was far less popular in places like Colorado and Wyoming when I was growing up. But I grew up in the era of the 7 EM-EM, as guys referred to the 7RM.

Should have kept that first 788 that I bought at a hardware store just outside the gate at Ft. McClellan.
Not that there are any flies on the M77 tang safety that I had rebarreled to .308 at Ft. Bragg...
The guy I sold the 788 to still has it... I do believe that it is his only centerfire rifle...

I have 3 and started my son off with a 308. Easy to make shoot great and a 125 NAB over Varget will hit 3200fps accurate! My son dropped his first antelope this year at just shy of 300-yards.

If I ever decided to hang around with only two cartridges one would be a .308W. The other a .22-250.

I started shooting the .308 Win (AKA 7.62X51) with the M-14 rifle, and did a flock of target shooting with a custom M-1 rebarrelled to .308. This rifle was weighted to 12#, and the first .308 I owned surprised me that the cartridge had recoil, Hey this Tikka Battue recoils. Since then I have acquired several others including a Win M-88 with a short stock for grandkids. My favorite now is my Steyr Scout, and I have used that rifle on multiple safaris. It would be Good Enuf for most things do if I did not enjoy shooting rifles in general. Still like my NULA M24 in '06 (copy of JB's spec).

You can mostly make about any load and it will work in this cartridge...

jim

A bull from last week. He didn't care for the 308 but was blind in one eye so that may have had something to do with it.

I often hunt with an 88 in 308 cuz I want to. It is crazy accurate and just got a new VX2 installed:



I often shoot competition with a 308 because I'm required/forced to. MUCH better choices for true LR work. Like my 260 or 7mmRM. After 800yds, the 308 is pretty much a brick. I still run 175gr SMKs because they are 1/4 MOA accurate in the gun. If Ionly had 1 LR rifle and were forced to run a 308 further, I'd run Scenars......

i hate the 308, that is why i have five rifles chambered in 308

I've used the .308 since '74. Every once in a while I pick up one of my 30-06 , 7mm mag , 300 sav. ,etc. and i always go back to the .308. Hard hitting and easy on the shoulder. I've taken big whitetails and 900 lb moose --- whats not to love ?

I'll take em as a public service so you are no longer shamed

It's what the 7-08 was intended to be.

That should be good for another 5 pages.

With those heavy bullets will the 308 kill like a 358 win?

Love my ugly little Ruger GSR in .308. Mine will put 5 shots of Remington 150gr Corelock Ammo into a 1/2" group at 100 yards off sandbags. It has already accounted for too many feral hogs to count, and will be even more fun when my Suppressor Stamp comes in.

Love the 308 Win. My favorite caliber hands down.