JakeBlues;
Good evening to you sir, I hope the day's been a good one for you and you're well.
Since the BT vs Flat Base has been covered, I'll offer a few experiences with lighter bullets in various .308" cartridges - after all, I'm not BC30cal for nothing....
When the Canadian ammo maker Imperial went out of business, I ended up with "a whole bunch" of their 110gr spitzer bullets.
I proceeded to load them in a .308 Carbine, 21" '06 and a couple of .308 Normas to see what we could see.
What we saw was they'd group fine out to 100yds and then not one of our rifles would group dependably beyond that. Not minute of crow or marmot which were still legal for us to shoot back then.
The other odd thing that I noted was that when we went up to 130gr HP Speer and 125gr Ballistic Tips, they were about as fast as the 110gr, but would group reasonably well out to roughly 300yds if it wasn't a howling wind.
The 130gr Speer were absolute grenades when they'd land on a marmot or crow. It was one of those things one needed to investigate in person to wrap one's head around.
About that time I built a .22-250AI and all varminting activities with the .308" rifles ceased then and there.
Actually I still have some 125gr Ballistic Tips loaded in the .308 Norma that chronoed at 3490fps!!! That'd be an anti-fence climber combination from the dark side I'd suspect, you know?
Anyways sir, maybe it was our rifles and perhaps it was that lot of bullets, but I quit trying to send them fast and loaded most of the rest of them at about 900fps with 231 for close range plinking.
Hope that was useful for you or someone out there in the ether space tonight. Lets hope we don't ever need to try the fence climber ammo out.
All the best.
Dwayne