Favorite .308 rifle?

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Originally Posted by grunzter

308's rock! ...nearly as much as .223's :P
60% of mine are destined to a new life as baked bean cans and electric shavers... :(
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ok here is a serious question for you...strait up dinky die serious

you know/pretty sure those things of beauty are going to be removed from your posession and we all hope the govt will pay a reasonable amount for them....its going to hurt like stink.....
now IF you KNEW that instead of being melted down and turned into baked bean cans...they were going to go into armory of the NZ armed forces for thier use...would it make the pain a little less????
man we could have the best equiped military in the world...accuracy wise anyway.... I mean the taxpayer will be forking out the $$$$ so why cant they be repurposed where the taxpayers $$$$ would be used anyway...
those that are fit for purpose,issue them,those in obsure calibre store securely for a "just in case" moment and those that are past thier use by date could be stripped of usable bits and buried with dignity....

For me @Joe Bob Briggs my Favourite 308 is the Springfield M1A

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Originally Posted by 308

"Duurrrrr I'm American and you little kiwis down there in upside -down land should have a 2nd Amendment like we do, it's the greatest"

Fuck off

And shove your thoughts and prayers up yer arse

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No need to be rude to our American visitors here. Sure, a lot of them, usually, the less informed and untraveled ones, think they're the greatest country in the world, greatest this and greatest that. Some of them even think they're only free country in the world. Those that think that are just ignorant about the world and lets face it, we have more than a few ignorant Kiwis too. As a country and a people they do have a lot to be proud of. Overall though, they're just the same as us. Freedom loving and generally very friendly, decent people.

Only had 2 my omark and a valmet i had for a while liked them both

A lot of people being proper dickheads in this thread, and none of them are the original poster. Some people need to pull their heads out of the arses.

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Originally Posted by Micky Duck

IF you KNEW that instead of being melted down and turned into baked bean cans...they were going to go into armory of the NZ armed forces for thier use...would it make the pain a little less????
man we could have the best equiped military in the world...accuracy wise anyway.... I mean the taxpayer will be forking out the $$$$ so why cant they be repurposed where the taxpayers $$$$ would be used anyway...
those that are fit for purpose,issue them,those in obsure calibre store securely for a "just in case" moment and those that are past thier use by date could be stripped of usable bits and buried with dignity....

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to quote someone else from another thread......."STOP MAKING SENSE"...........the newly formed govt department called the sensibility authority will send someone round to give you a talking to ......(last part was in jest of course it hasnt been formed......yet)

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Originally Posted by Joe Bob Briggs

What's your favorite .308 rifle?

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think i may be one of the few kiwis that doesnt own or has never owned a .308....
having said that if i could only have one rifle it would be .308

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Originally Posted by scotty

to quote someone else from another thread......."STOP MAKING SENSE"...........the newly formed govt department called the sensibility authority will send someone round to give you a talking to ......(last part was in jest of course it hasnt been formed......yet)

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There is now way the touchy feely types would let our firearms go to the military even if that's what they did back in WW2 to help out.
It would be similar to why the cops don't auction off firearms anymore.
Cant be seen to having a firearm they have deemed naughty actually doing what they said it was put in the naughty corner for.

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Originally Posted by csmiffy

There is now way the touchy feely types would let our firearms go to the military even if that's what they did back in WW2 to help out.
It would be similar to why the cops don't auction off firearms anymore.
Cant be seen to having a firearm they have deemed naughty actually doing what they said it was put in the naughty corner for.

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I can well imagine some NZDF types having a quiet pick through our AR 15's for the best bits, while a plod turns a blind eye.

Hmm hard one would have to be the Accuracy international AW 7.62 or the m-14 EBR. Both were great rifles and lots of fun to use.

thats the bit Max....it shouldnt be done on the sly.... taxpayer has /will pay for them so WHF shouldnt they be utilized where future taxpayer $$$ woulddve gone.

If I owned one I’d not mind the army taking the best bits.....better than having the lot crushed. Bit like organ donation no?

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Originally Posted by grunzter

308's rock! ...nearly as much as .223's :P
60% of mine are destined to a new life as baked bean cans and electric shavers... :(
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Nice SLRs there, my dad got one at the end of his army career after carrying Jungle carbine. He hated the jungle carbine but was very impressed with what he called the FN .

My favourite 308 is my Howa. So far everything I've shot with it ended up the right amount of dead .

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Originally Posted by paremata

ended up the right amount of dead .

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Like that. Not slightly dead, not excessively dead, perfectly dead.

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Originally Posted by 308

"Duurrrrr I'm American and you little kiwis down there in upside -down land should have a 2nd Amendment like we do, it's the greatest"

Fuck off

And shove your thoughts and prayers up yer arse

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??? am I missing something

I like my FN winny featherweight a lot. 165s at around 2700fps in 18inch barrel is a sweet spot.

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Originally Posted by Max Headroom

Yes it's hunting/shooting. Southland is at the bottom of NZ.

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Southland barely exists in the minds of most NZ'ders. You could forgive somebody overseas for wondering what the hell it is.

For those who don't know; it's a frozen wasteland, devoid of any game animals. It's a bit like North Korea - segregated from the rest of the world - and ruled by a dictator (who happens to be a polar bear).

Southlanders subsist on a strict diet of Speights (type of beer - I imagine similar in taste to sewer water in Dallas?) and oysters.

And it's got its' own form of dress code (akin to the situation in the Middle East), but instead of headscarves, all men are required to wear skirts, or else they are deported to Auckland as a form of punishment.

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Never owned a .308, but I've always been interested in a Rem 700 .308 in an Accuracy International stock.

My favourite 308 ..... is a 284:thumbsup:

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Rem 700 308, 24 inch, with a Rem R5 stock

My personal favourite is the Steyr SSG69. A bit long in the tooth now. And with none of the bells and whistles of many modern rifles, but As possibly the first purpose built, factory made sniper rifle - backup iron sights and all - it had (has?) a place in history.

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Originally Posted by Max Headroom

I am, but don't fit the southland stereotype . (Conservative /speights drinking /churchgoing /workaholic farmers)

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What part of Southland are you from? Not my part obviously!?

A few years back I went hunting with some of my wife's relo's in the Takitimu's in Southland. I've never seen people drink like those guys. They'd start about 9 a.m. and finish about 1 a.m. the following morning and get up without the slightest hint of a hangover. They didn't do much hunting although one of them tried pretty hard the first day after we arrived. He loaded up his backpack with about a dozen beer cans. Heard a shot from him a few hours later. Claimed there were three deer and he shot at one and missed. I said, there was probably only one and it looked like three. Didn't appreciate my sarcasm.

Yeah @10-Ring, reminds me of the bad old days in 1990-1993 in South Africa, I was the lone Pom in a world of fairly hostile NW Transvaal Afrikaners. No choice but to learn the lingo and do my best to adopt their habits, matter of survival... well the one habit I simply could not tolerate was the extreme drinking, Klipdrift and Coke for breakfast, a couple of cases of Castle during the day, some shots for tea and some more brandy until pass out. All the while waving various rifles in the general direction of game while flying around in bakkies (utes).

The lads in my age group were the last of the front line conscripts to fight the Border War in Angola, and a lot of them came back completely fucked in the head.

There's a certain look to the 90s Boer that I'll never forget, the sunburnt, glassy eyed, unfocused, slightly slurred veteran of the 5 day bender, as he raises his rifle and draws a circle in mid-air with the muzzle.... BOOOMMM! Aaggghh fokit, gemis.

Er, sorry, .308 Win. My favourite? This one of course, from this weekend just gone.

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Sadly we do not have Second Amendment rights.

@Flyblown what chassis is that please?

@ishoot10s its a DPT Hunter with a Dave Waters 6 shot mag.

The photo was clearly taken with me flat on my back, trying to recover after the climb.

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Originally Posted by Flyblown

Yeah @10-Ring, reminds me of the bad old days in 1990-1993 in South Africa, I was the lone Pom in a world of fairly hostile NW Transvaal Afrikaners. No choice but to learn the lingo and do my best to adopt their habits, matter of survival... well the one habit I simply could not tolerate was the extreme drinking, Klipdrift and Coke for breakfast, a couple of cases of Castle during the day, some shots for tea and some more brandy until pass out. All the while waving various rifles in the general direction of game while flying around in bakkies (utes).

The lads in my age group were the last of the front line conscripts to fight the Border War in Angola, and a lot of them came back completely fucked in the head.

There's a certain look to the 90s Boer that I'll never forget, the sunburnt, glassy eyed, unfocused, slightly slurred veteran of the 5 day bender, as he raises his rifle and draws a circle in mid-air with the muzzle.... BOOOMMM! Aaggghh fokit, gemis.

Er, sorry, .308 Win. My favourite? This one of course, from this weekend just gone.

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That is indeed a very sparse and arid region (both geographically and the latter linguistically in particular) of South Africa. The Angolan war was extremely protracted and in the later years, in particular 1986-1988 saw the most intensive conventional warfare conducted. There were very few people or families untouched by Angola.

This is not to say that I condone their actions on hunting trips but I appreciate you recognising it for what it was. Unfortunately, like anywhere, there are still idiots in South Africa who perpetuate these sort of activities.

I used to hunt with my SLR, which had to be my favorite .308 at the time as it was my only centerfire.
If I ended up hunting an area in pairs i would say to the other guy
"I'm going in front" rack the slide, lock it down on safe and after all the birds in the trees had flown away in surprise I would add
" and thats why "
You just cant load one of them queitly when an animal is sighted.

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Originally Posted by johnd

I used to hunt with my SLR, which had to be my favorite .308 at the time as it was my only centerfire.
If I ended up hunting an area in pairs i would say to the other guy
"I'm going in front" rack the slide, lock it down on safe and after all the birds in the trees had flown away in surprise I would add
" and thats why "
You just cant load one of them queitly when an animal is sighted.

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I found an AR was surprisingly easy to chamber quietly. Pull the charging handle all the way back. Gently push it forward. Push forward assist and you're away.

Would have been easier just having it on safe and flicking to fire when ready though.

My favourite 308....Shot my first stag with it



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Its the top one, the middle one was my 223 and the bottom one was my 22LR

May as well have a bit of class....

This photo was taken before they were all wearing identical scopes so I can practise with any of them...