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

@Kimber 7mm-08

Yes thank you! A timely reminder for us all to remember the 7 rules. Thank you.

Originally Posted by SiB

@Kimber 7mm-08

Yes thank you! A timely reminder for us all to remember the 7 rules. Thank you.

7mm or .7" ?

Just shot this off hand 50 yard group with my .7" musket
Pulled the last shot right



Just think of it as a 250 year old 308

Originally Posted by tetawa

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

Back in CAC days my choice was their 180 grain hollow points in my 308.

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?

Originally Posted by berg243

obviously flyblown's rifle is a black scary one and thats why the died of fright .

Far out, yes, yes it is, that may well explain it.

Son's 308's victim in the Ruahine's this morning.

Its seems to have killed it. He said about 80 yards.

Originally Posted by Tahr

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...

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Nosler BT projectiles with their solid copper boat tail really perform in the 308

Originally Posted by GWH

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?

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.

Useless cartridge.

Originally Posted by Flyblown

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.

Useless cartridge.

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Thats it! Thats the hopeless brick lobbing rifle chambered in a poor choice of a cartridge.

The 308 win - Scaring deer to death since ages ago.

Yes, a few. No problems.

Originally Posted by kidmac42

I think this thread is misnamed. 'who hasn't shot a deer with 308' would likely be more appropriate

me, but a long time ago I did shoot a couple with a 30-06 (and then a couple more with a 270 and a few more with a 25-06) which is almost a 308

Originally Posted by Flyblown

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.

Useless cartridge.

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That second photo is surely what paradise looks like.

Originally Posted by veitnamcam

That second photo is surely what paradise looks like.

thats what my old home used to look like......pretty sure photo will be within 50kms of it too....and I left it all behind....

Have owned/used .308's since 1977. Have shot examples of every NZ available cloven hoof animal and some other species. This includes shitloads of red deer, goats and pigs. So yeah, I must have had a lot of luck on my side using such a useless short range ballistically inferior caliber as the .308 Winchester/7.62 NATO cartridge.