Thread: Favorite .308 rifle?

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.

Originally Posted by Max Headroom

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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





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...