Thread: Subsonic 308 project

Originally Posted by Clubbie

Not yet, they've all exited. TBH I'd be inclined to go Lehigh for big game...but on the other hand, if it's your bush gun you're shooting them at very close range anyway.
I'm yet to have the opportunity with a red at close range with this rifle.
So you have the $3 vs 40c debate, but also the ethics of a clean kill, so I'm looking forward to seeing what they do to answer the ethics question.

An enjoyable watch.

I’d actually found you and subscribed before you pitched up here cos I was searching 308 subsonic recently, as it is my next project. A suggestion that would be helpful for me is next time would you be able to show us the wound channel, entry and exit wounds? Its a wee while since I watched the vids, don’t think you covered that?

Regarding the Lehigh question, have read up a shit load on this subsonic business and concluded that we can spend up big on components, and still very easily put the bullet in the wrong place. Won’t matter a damn whether its one bullet or the other in that situation! I love the design and reputation of the Lehigh. But I reckon with our soft deer and the use of subsonics, the “ethics” question is better answered by practice, detailed knowledge of your ballistics and deer anatomy, and then more practice, much more than it is by which bullet you use (within reason)... Just my take. I’ll be trying @shooternz’s cast bullets, and regular hunting bullets that will readily tumble.

(Basically I really don’t like the whole “ethical kill” thing, as responsible hunters I think our ethics are sound from the get go... when you look at the dictionary definition of the word. If you’re a moron being moronic as unfortunately I come across from time to time then that’s where ethics should be discussed cos those wankers dig a big whole for the rest of us to fall into whether we like it or not. Anyway I’ll shut up.)