I'm not so much a pure speed demon, where I hunt I can get by with a .30-30 most of the time and the faster cartridges tend to be a little destructive with the close-in shots.
BUT.
The occasional long shot can be had, so I've gotten to really like the .308 Win/165 BT @ 2700 fps combo. Easy on meat (and me) up close but can still drop a deer at 400 yards without fuss.
I like that versatility though the little .30 WCF has bagged a lot of deer, bear, and piggies for me. It just has somewhat of a "reach" limit and you have to respect that. I shot a deer at 236 yards with it and the evidence was the bullets weren't expanding too much, but at that distance, the .308 is right in the middle of its working velocity of the bullets I use.
If you like high speed, there is that advantage of the flat trajectory, and if I hunted in a more open area, that's most likely the way I'd lean.
