Thread: .308 and Speer 180 grain BTSP bullets

I was thinking of taking my BSA Majestic in .308 for the roar again this year.

I have always used 150 grain bullets in the .308, but this year was thinking of loading 180 grain Speer BTSP's in it, with AR2208 to around 2500-2600 fps.

I generally shoot things at fairly short range during the roar, 10 to 50 metres. The Speer 180 BTSP is supposed to be a soft long range bullet - has anyone used it much? How would it go at short ranges at these speeds?

This isn't to say that the 150 grain Hornady interlocks I have used for years have not done eveyrthing I wanted really, I ask because I have a nearly full box of these Speers sitting here doing nothing, and the stag I shot last year was pretty big. Maybe I might find another big one. (Ironically I shot that one with a .243. Ever more ironically, while I ask this question about the .308, I have a perfectly good 9.3 Mauser sitting in the wings waiting for its turn, like a lion lying in the long grass...)