I don't have a lot of experience with whitetail hunting, but I can tell you that both the 7-08 w/139-140gr cup&core bullets and the .308 with 150gr & 165gr cup&core bullets will kill caribou with boring regularity.

I agree that there's not a nickle's worth of difference in their performance with medium weight bullets.

I have hunted caribou in thick woodlands along rivers and on the open tundra at 200+yds and the critters didn't know the difference between them. They died right there.

Just my $0.02

Ed

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