Thread: Favorite .308 rifle?

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

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.

Originally Posted by Joe Bob Briggs

What's your favorite .308 rifle?

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

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?

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

My favourite 308 ..... is a 284

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.

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.

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.