Thread: so who has shot a deer with a .308

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

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

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

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

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…….

Originally Posted by SiB

Deer? Yes, it's a Deer!

Bang!

Flop

end of story every time

Oh and that’s a Tikka in .308 as well…….

Fixed it.

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