Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles Just one?....7-08, 6.5, 270, or 308

My first hunting rifle at age 17 was a Remington 700 in 308. After two or three seasons I departed from the 308 & tinkered with many other chamberings since then & have recently returned to my teenage love of the 308 WInchester. I have purchased 5 of them in the last 8 months. Can hardly wait to go hunt with them.

Yep, with the 7mm-08 in a close second place. Either one is a great pick, and I'd go with a standard sporter I liked and cut it to 21" or so. I prefer that to a pencil-contour. Five of my main deer rifles have been to the smith over the years for chop/crown at 20-22", depending on the chambering. Most started at 24".

HH it ONLY has to make sense to you ! !


Jerry

Guess I'd go 7mm08

I’ve got a Tikka T3 Lite SS in .270 and have been using 150 Partitions for everything. Only changes I’ve made to the gun are lightening the trigger and swapping out the recoil pad for a Limbsaver. Mounted a 2.5-10x42 Monarch and was good to go. The gun is very accurate, light- but not too light, weather resistant, has fairly mild recoil, and has been flawless with regards to reliability. Other than the big bears or African DG, I can’t think of anything I’d hunt that couldn’t be handled well with this combo. Deer, Hogs, Elk, Moose, Antelope, Plains Game, Black Bear- the 150 NP should handle it all. I’ve got a bunch of other rifles, some equally versatile, but can think of none better as an all-rounder that a well set up .270. That would be my vote.

Maybe one of the elders knows, but I think JOC was a fan of 150 NP as all-arounders....

In a .280

Ain't 2 schits 💩💩 of difference between them anyway...

AS most of us concur, ANY of the 3 cartridges you list will do a good job.

Just a little trivia.

In a Tikka the action length is the SAME.

The 270 W has a longer chamber - = more metal removed/larger hole in action. ? maybe less weight ? .277

The 7-08 has a larger bore for the barrel length = larger & longer hole. ? maybe less weight ? .284

The Creed has the smaller CHAMBER & smaller BORE. ? maybe MORE weight than the others ? .264


AGAIN it boils down to minutia. IFn it was me -- I'd pick the rifle and CLOSE MY EYES and choose the cartridge, well I'd choose between the 2 larger bores. (just me)


Good Luck

Jerry

Jerry, you know you want a 6.5 Creed as bad as I do....

Well IF you want one AS bad as I do, You WILL NOT be getting one.



Jerry

One other point:

Again, in a Tikka, the 6.5CM has a 24.3" barrel, and the 270 and 7-08 have a 22.4" barrel.

Both of these lengths are working from memory, so may be .1" +/-

I bet you cave before I do. Ha!!!😆

Oh, and as for barrel length on the Tikkamoor, that sucker gets chopped and the stock tripped for an old skool T3. Or a CTR in a T3. But ain't doing neither....

Typical window licker.

What's a window licker?

I'll put $ 500.00 on that ! !


ONCE during H School, I came home and Mom had made a fresh Pecan Pie. I ate 2 (two) normal pieces. I got SO SICK I can't describe it.

Literally, It was OVER 20 years before I TASTED another Pecan Pie. >>>> creedxxxx.


Jerry

I think his name is Gilbert.


Jerry

I like me some pecan pie.....

Even Redheads have their hearts on the left side.

But, I like the basic approach.....