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As has been said, get both!

I have both, find myself using the 7-08 more than the Creed.

OP didn't say if he hand loaded or not. If not, I'd recommend the Creed due to ammo quality and availability.

Deer will never know the difference, shooter probably won't either.

Now, the 7-08 and BG powder go together like ham and eggs...

Got that from a good source and it's been proven in the field and at the range. I even got a big jug so I won't run out any time soon.

DF

Very nice…

Just make life simple - get a 308

I like that answer Brad! 💪



A 7-08 gives eye popping results occasionally..
I have to hang this pic a couple times a year. 🙃

This 7/08 gets carried more than any gun I own.

"Like Button"

I’m a 7mm08 deer hunter but if I was starting up or starting over. I would consider the 6.5. Ammo availability would be the reason. I don't intend to start reloading. Manufacturers of rifles and ammo have clearly gotten behind the 6.5.

Fixed.

I knew I could count on you Jordan!

I like the .308, too. Hard to go wrong there.

One guy wrote than the 7-08 squeezes all the suck out of the .308. Sorta funny, but not true.

DF

Any time, Brad. *grin*

I shoot .308, too, but variety is the spice of life.

Because it doesn’t squeeze all the suck?

Ha!

I’m a 7-08 fan, but do have a .308 and like it. Also shoot that famous man bun round.

Diversity.

Gotta be P.C., don’t ya know.

DF

Yep.
When the boys get to talking rifle cartridges and they begin frothing at the mouth, their eyes glazing over with lust for the cartridge of the month, they'll inevitably ask what you shoot. When you reply "308", they quickly move on and you don't have to engage in a drawn out, inane conversation over minutiae. Meanwhile the old hands know what works; simply pick up a 308 and go hunting.

Replace "308" with any of a dozen or more nearly identically performing cartridges, many of which even older lol

"simply works" describes just about every midsize round. Personally, even as an "old hand" I'll probably still be lusting over every new (and every old!) cartridge to come along...part of just being a rifle loony. And they all "simply work".

How many angels can dance on the head of a pin? Find out by buying a rifle chambered for the newest and greatest cartridge and striking up a conversation with a rifle looney.

Sure, if you have time to kill and want to kill it by talking about ballistics, why not?

If you don't, then don't.

But I find the whole "boys talk about the latest and greatest while old hands just go with what they know works" when there are plenty of both doing both lol. Maybe feeling like an old pro because of a choice of cartridge works for someone else. Maybe having better BCs and best in class performance to shoot deer at 100 yards does for someone else lol

And they all "simply work"...even if it doesn't make one feel better and warm and fuzzy about one's self somehow lol.

Ope, I seem to offended a rifle looney. Carry on with the white noise.