Yeah. I have, but it was a while back. Got just under 2500 fps with the 200-grain Speer in a Winchester Model 88. Used Hodgdon's maximum listed load and there wasn't any problem with extraction.


These days there's more 200-grain data for the .308, even though some companies don't provide any at all. Ramshot lists 44.2 grains of TAC as getting 2555 fps with the Sierra MatchKing, and Hodgdon lists 45.3 CFE223 for 2582 fps with the Swift A-Frame. Not many animals on earth that couldn't be hunted with that. But we also haven't has any trouble with anything up to elk-size, either here or in Africa, with 150's.


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