I have had several 308s through the years, but shot only a few head of game with it. I've owned a Mod 742, Mod 70 FWT, Mod 7600, Mod 700 ADL, a 98 Mauser, a Ruger Ultralite (kicking little devil!) and a few M1As. I loved shooting the M60 Pig in the Army, but hated packing it around! My old hunting partner here in Utah uses his HS graduation gift in 1970, Model BLR in 308 on everything here, including Henry Mnt Bison! His choice is the 150 corlokt, factory or handloaded. I used the factory 150CLT on one whitetail, and the old, softer Nosler 165 BT handload on an Axis buck. Always been a "bigger faster freak", ha. For woods deer/hogs, love the 30-30. You figure from WW1-Korea the 30-06 was using a 150gr around 2700...thats Modern 308 speeds easy cheesy! Not bad company to be in. Its a fine round. Having said that, I only shoot the M1A anymore, currently use the 270 Win, 300WM and "fixing to" use the 338 RCM. Do I "need" any of them over the 308? Nope, just "life is too short, so many rounds to play with, so little time."
