Home Forums Reloading Big Game Rifles 308 Deep Woods Hunting Load

Take your pick. Either will do the job if you do yours.

180 round nose Remington core lockts

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If you shoot them here they will drop. It doesn't really matter what bullet you use. They may spin around in place, but they are not going anywhere.

That's defiantly a nice pig. But notice the stiff arm shoving the pig into a close camera lens. The man is standing well behind the pig. Fisherman often pose that way with their catch to make them look bigger than they really are.
Still a good pic and a big pig. My guess would be 250-300lbs. Jmo. I'm sure others will disagree.

Agree 100%. It's easy to bullszchit the fans but not the players.



hanco, look at the size of this antelope!!

I think Greg is holding it to keep side view to camera

He ain’t smart enough to try to pose pig and himself to make it look bigger. Son in law took pic, he ain’t that smart either.

That’s funny right there. Hope the son in law has a sense of humor.

My favorite deep woods rifle is also my favorite .308 Win. so I'd go with it except for one problem. The rifle is a one trick pony. It took two years to find an at least usable hunting load I got the rifle on the cheap as its previous owner could find a decent hunting load. Finally I got the 165 gr. Speer hot Core to do 1.5" on a consistent basis from the bench. Velocity a rip roaring speed of 2550 FPS from the 18.5" barrel using a stiff load of W760. Nothing else came close. Some minor tinkering brought groups to be in the 1.25 to 1.50" range. The only thing that came close was the 180 gr. Sierra round nose and the best that one does is 2.5". I suppose if all shots were 100 yards or less it'd work but I'd not be happy.

I have used that 180 gr. load in a Remington M660 with 20" barrel but never chronographed the load. I hunted Mule Deer in an area in Nevada that had a sagebrush forest that was over head high with that M660 in a custom stock and took several bid deer out of the place. Shots there were more 35 to 50 yards That 180 gr. load worked just fine but never recovered a single bullet that I can recall.

I think either bullet the OP mentioned would work OK but, my preference would be leaning more toward the Hornady 180 gr. round nose. My experience with monometal bullets is rather thin. The only TSX bullet that has worked for me has been the 225 gr. .358" in my .35 Whelen. I've tried some with the 100 gr. TSX in a .257 Robt. and 25-06 with poor accuracy. The 120 gr. and 140 gr. 7MM bullets have failed dismally in three rifles chambered to the 7x57 and one in .280 Rem. Just the luck of the draw I guess.
Hell! I'll probably never see a 500 pound pig in my lifetime. Pigs are far and few where I live unless you habitually hit the local Walmarts.
PJ

They both have a great sense of humor and would expect no less BS from me. If I’m not fuuuking with you it means I don’t like you or I have problems I’m dealing with.


I would really like killing a pig that big, got back on mostly for the chance to get one that big. They hardly get 200 lbs in central Texas, that pig killed very close to Texas Louisiana border

Heh heh easy there on the inlaws.

hanco, look at the size of this antelope!!

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Noice! Look at the bull my son is holding onto


On serious note.
I don’t trust 180 corelokts.
180 game kings yes.
150-168 ttsx yes

It's interesting how the notion of a RN being superior at "brush bucking" still clings on, years after it has been debunked.

Me, any 150, 165, or 180 will do. Pass the Varget or TAC...

Yep.MR-2000 for me