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Yep a fair few
Yes!
These days I’m well and truly a magnum guy but I do relish the feeing of getting a handful of soft points out of that old tattered box and knocking a deer or two over with the trusty .308
She’s always a bit of a contract going from the usual 3/4 pound match trigger but I get there in the end :thumbsup:
I have …but most probably shot more with a .223….
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Yes, with two 308's.
I haven’t had a 308 for a few years and got myself one back in February, shot 50 red skins with her so far, only 2 needed a xtra shot (bad shot placement) .Most deer shot at about 300m-420m mark and the perfect distance for the 168gr A-max and ELD-m to reliably work in my 16” barrel.
I actually wanted to get a 260 or a 6.5 creedmoor but with the component and ammo shortage I decided to get the trusty 308 and can feed it most powders and projectiles with little fuss.
I used too
But now I know better
Yep.
Three types of deer, tahr, chamois, wallaby… it does the job on all sorts.:thumbsup:
For 20years,shot many deers with the 308,they dont get up either.;)
yip - love mine :)
If I had to choose one caliber it would be the 308.
I think most people would say the same if they had common sense. Let's face it ; it does the job, you won't run out of components and if we had to defend our country I know plenty of people with ammo ready to go.
It's a no brainer......
All of them.
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Shot my first deer with one, and my second, and my third, and my . . . .
Don't own one any more though, any one want to buy some loading dies :D
BLR. L1A1 and AR10
nothing gets back up again though i now shoot 7mmRM
Yes I have and it worked, so did my 303 and my 6.5x55..................
you get the idea.
Yep and just bought another not long ago despite having the latest flash Harry 6.5prc the safe just isn't right without a 308 in there.
My younger son shot one in the Ruahines this morning with my 50 year old 308 Anschutz. 120 yards.
Yep, a custom stocked (grade 3 walnut) Browning BAR I used to own. It was more about the gun than the caliber :D
My first rifle L1A1 308 Red dot custom rifle
Model 70 308
Browning ABolt 308
Current rifle Bergara Extreme Hunter 308
got my first sika stags this roar thanks to my 308
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Yup most of my deer have been shot with a .308. Plus chammy, tahr, goats, wallaby and memorably a ferret.
Have owned a canoe paddle ruger, a sako AII and now using a semi custom Howa. Does everything I need and easy to load for. Plus works great with suppressor. What's not to like. In reality is the only centrefire I need but dont tell my wife that.
Have also owned and used .270s, a sako, a ruger and a howa...hmm I see a pattern forming.
Some deer and Tahr, but mostly pigs and goats. My go-to goat rifle is the .223 now, .30/06 for everything else in larger game.
My first rifle L1A1 308 Red dot custom rifle
Model 70 308
Browning ABolt 308
Current rifle Bergara Extreme Hunter 308
got my first sika stags this roar thanks to my 308
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Not me, but only cause I don't own one yet.
I think this thread is misnamed. 'who hasn't shot a deer with 308' would likely be more appropriate:thumbsup:
Shot all of my deer over 55 years with a .308. I use 150 grain soft point projectiles for reds and sika, and 100 grain hollowpoints for fallow. Longest shot was 450 metres, closest was 25 metres. All one shot kills. Somebody told me recently there are other calibres available now-that's not true, is it? Why would you use anything else, FFS?
Deer?
Bang!
Flop
end of story every time
Oh and that’s a Tikka in .308 as well…….
Fixed it.Quote:
Originally Posted by SiB
Yep & plenty of them .I still have my Rem Mohawk 308, l brought for my 21st in 82, when l got back from a trip Shearing in Oz all cashed up & we often used horses to get right up in the back country for our Deer & pig hunting & carry them out on the horses.I brought it with a 2X7 scope, from memory a Redfield scope,which was a good brand back then , but that scope got bent like a banana when a horse rolled on it, poor old Mohawk shrugged it off, but did get bedded by the gunsmith who checked it out after as l do not think he approved of the DIY job l had done .The old girls stock looks like a chainsaw has hit it & a lot of bluing is long gone & is currently waiting on a bloke to carve out a Man Licker stock for it out of a nice bit of Walnut l have been saving f & it will get a Old School Deep Blue Cerokote job & back to Deer hunting .
Have used a Rem mod 7 308 as my Bush Pig or a bit over a decade now between the 2 guns they would have taken 100's of Deer & all of the other NZ game species including a 414 mtrs one shot kill on a Red .
Yes, but not proud of it, prefer the 270 plus a few others. Will say the CAC 130 gr did the trick in the 308, may have been Speer projectiles
@Kimber 7mm-08
Yes thank you! A timely reminder for us all to remember the 7 rules. Thank you.
7mm or .7" ?Quote:
Originally Posted by SiB
Just shot this off hand 50 yard group with my .7" musket
Pulled the last shot right
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Just think of it as a 250 year old 308
Back in CAC days my choice was their 180 grain hollow points in my 308.Quote:
Originally Posted by tetawa
While ive never owned a 308 myself due to the fact that they are a "poor choice" because of their excessive recoil and they fire bullets that have a ballistic coefficient that low that they nearly always fall short of their intended target.
While hunting with @Flyblown a year or so back I had a go with his 308, a tikka t3 if my memory serves me correctly, shortened and suppressed and fitted into a light weight DPT hunter chassis.
As we were wandering along we spotted a couple of red deer just within 200 yards IIRC, anyway, i dropped to the ground and found a quick rest and lined up the first one that presented a shot, in that very short amount of time it takes to flick the safety off and place the crosshair and squeeze off the shot all sorts of terrible things were running thru my head, i was thinking about the hideous reputation of the terrible 308 that i had the miss fortune to be carrying, i had grave concerns for my shoulder due to the extreme amount of force that was about to be unleashed on it, i also couldnt stop thinking about the brick that i was going to be lobbing out the end of the barrel and wondering if it would even reach the deer........
......the trigger broke the brick was lobbed, to my great astonishment the deer actually felt over, i reloaded expecting that the "poor choice" cartridge cant have possibly killed this deer with one shot and that it most likely must have tripped on hearing the noise of the hideous thing, the other deer spooked and ran a bit and stopped, so i lined that one up too and lobbed another brick in its direction.....
To my great amazement, it too fell over! My god I must have been lucky i thought to my self, what are the chances of two deer in a row tripping over or dying of fright! What are the chances?
Far out, yes, yes it is, that may well explain it.Quote:
Originally Posted by berg243
Son's 308's victim in the Ruahine's this morning.
Its seems to have killed it. He said about 80 yards.
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I dunno. I'm suspicious thats about to jump up and bolt...Quote:
Originally Posted by Tahr
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Nosler BT projectiles with their solid copper boat tail really perform in the 308
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They sure as hell didn’t die of fright… just got back from a day running around looking for deer with my useless .308 Winchester. First one 180m, second one 480m. Both DRT with the Speer BTSP.Quote:
Originally Posted by GWH
Useless cartridge.
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Thats it! Thats the hopeless brick lobbing rifle chambered in a poor choice of a cartridge.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flyblown
The 308 win - Scaring deer to death since ages ago.
