Back in my youth, I humped an M60 through some really nasty jungle. I'm older now, but I still think I can haul the thing up the mountain. I've already spent a week bear hunting with it and it is not fun to carry (makes my M70 Win African in .416 Rem Mag seem like a 5 pounder), but I will get by.
As far as the 300 yd off-hand posters, I generally give people the benefit of the doubt when it don't cost me nothing.
Can't argue with you philosophy though (Life is short. Hunt hard).
BTW The .308 in question came to me by way of a good friend who died of lung cancer last April. I told his wife (widow) I would try and bag something with it in his memory.
