Thoughts on .308 ?

[yorketransport]

Yorke-
Do you drive a lifted diesel F-350 with 40" tires and those big spike lug nuts?
 

I'd never slum it with an F-350! I have a Siverado 2500 Duramax. I can't have big tires or a lift kit because I'm too short; I have to stick with 285/75 16s unless I install a rope ladder to get in and out. And instead of spikes I use 50 BMG cases on my lug nuts.

Was that the one with the 6.5 Creedmoor in the felt padded gunrack    ?

I've got to keep that Creedmoor looking good! Besides, if the Vortex PST mounted on there doesn't get a smooth ride in the gun rack it's zero will shift and I won't win the PRS match I'm driving to!

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[Kc_Kracker]

i was always under the impression the .308 is not a good long range round, and now i seem to be reading different? 

[h20hunter]

I consider mine a 500 yard gun. I shoot 165 accubonds and the ballistics say im right at 1800 fps at 500. I'm also dropping like a rock.

[Bob33]

i was always under the impression the .308 is not a good long range round, and now i seem to be reading different? 

What are your definitions of "long range" and "good"?

[lamrith]

It's all relative KC.  Up until recently (the last decade or so?) it was probably the most popular long range caliber, they are solid consistent performers.  Sheer volume of everything from gun parts to reloading components made it straightforward to build around it and still does.  Plus tons and tons of data to help dial in with.  It was just a mainstay for a long time.

Now with all the hot new calibers being dreamed up there are so many options there just is no perfect caliber.  I was and still am a huge fan of 6.5grendel.  I went to it because I am a fan of the AR15 platform and it provides 308 ballistics in the Std AR15 platform and is extremely low recoil.  The recoil is so good you could put pretty much anyone behind the gun and they could shoot all day with it in the AR platform without fatigue due to recoil.  Ballistics on it are actually better past about 400yrds with it carrying more energy and less drop off.  My shoulder was bad for a while so it was just a no brainer all the way around.

However as of 2 months ago I have sold my Grendel and moved to 308 as my longer range caliber.  I had been shooting my Savage 10 bolt action in 308 a bit and I started to like it enough that I just built up a LR308 as well so I can shoot the 308 in bolt action or semi.  Components are cheaper to reload with, I can always snag ammo off the shelf if I am on a trip and lose ammo for some reason, and I find the round is easier to load and set case shoulder on than Grendel was.  Plus for me I can share some powders with 223 and some bullets with my 300blk.  I was still in load development so had not narrowed down, but it cut 5 powders, and hundreds of bullets out of my components I needed to stock.

[mountainman]

Different calibers are fun, but no denying, the "lowly" .308 is undoubtedly, the most popular round out there..

[Highhuntin]

You guys are making me wish I’d have sighted in my .308 for this year! Maybe I’ll get a new scope mounted, work up a load in the off season and take it out next year for old times sake!

[mountainman]

You guys are making me wish I’d have sighted in my .308 for this year! Maybe I’ll get a new scope mounted, work up a load in the off season and take it out next year for old times sake!

👍😉

[Magnum_Willys]

Different calibers are fun, but no denying, the "lowly" .308 is undoubtedly, the most popular round out there..

You think? In 1950 yes.  I know of no one using one. 30-06,  300 Win, 7mm, .270, .243 seem to far outnumber .308 users. 

[Biggerhammer]

Different calibers are fun, but no denying, the "lowly" .308 is undoubtedly, the most popular round out there..

You think? In 1950 yes.  I know of no one using one. 30-06,  300 Win, 7mm, .270, .243 seem to far outnumber .308 users.

I agree and stated such but my last post got deleted in a hurry.

[Biggerhammer]

I would shoot a 7x57 over a .308 Win. Even that  squid Jack O’Squid Conner had a wife that shot a 7x57 and had his .270 Win out classed .

[CAMPMEAT]

Here's my 308..

[mountainman]

Different calibers are fun, but no denying, the "lowly" .308 is undoubtedly, the most popular round out there..

You think? In 1950 yes.  I know of no one using one. 30-06,  300 Win, 7mm, .270, .243 seem to far outnumber .308 users. 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/.308_Winchester

[mountainman]

Here's my 308..

Nice Camp!

[KFhunter]

All the cool kids may scoff at the .308 now, but they probably cut their teeth on it.

It's a bread and butter gun, you'll shoot it and shoot it and shoot it and eventually you'll want something sexier -but not out of necessity - but because all those aforementioned "cool kids" will all be say'n "oh, you got a .308 huh....why?" and if you aren't fully secure in your manhood you'll be buying some flavor of the month gun in a chambering you'll never find in a walmart.