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Re: Thoughts on .308 ?
« Reply #60 on: October 08, 2018, 10:22:34 PM »
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Re: Thoughts on .308 ?
« Reply #61 on: October 08, 2018, 10:24:26 PM »
I bought an RPR in .308 and love it. Always loved the .308. Have owned various caliber rifles and brands and always came back to the .308.

I've killed more animals with that caliber then all the other calibers I've owned. It's just a comfortable caliber that has proven to be accurate and reliable.

What people like or use is up to them but I'm not one to jump on the bandwagon. :tup:
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Re: Thoughts on .308 ?
« Reply #62 on: October 08, 2018, 10:28:27 PM »
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.


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Re: Thoughts on .308 ?
« Reply #63 on: October 08, 2018, 10:34:45 PM »
Camp,

That 6.5 Grendel has that .308 out classed. Then again there are reasons for owning .308’s and 5.56’s. A cold one and the movie Patriot will give a guy a good under standing of “Common Chamberings”.

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Thoughts on .308 ?
« Reply #64 on: October 08, 2018, 10:37:42 PM »
I’m deer hunting with a .308 this year for the first time ever. Why not?

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Re: Thoughts on .308 ?
« Reply #65 on: October 08, 2018, 10:42:28 PM »
I’m deer hunting with a .308 this year for the first time ever. Why not?


Why not👍
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Re: Thoughts on .308 ?
« Reply #66 on: October 08, 2018, 10:46:06 PM »
I’m deer hunting with a .308 this year for the first time ever. Why not?

Run what you brung. I’ve smoked a bunch in the orchards with a .22 Mag. Sticks with pointy things on the end work. To each their own. 👍 I have a truck in the shop right now getting repaired. It smoked two of them at 50mph. I’m sure if I wired my water trough to 480, I would have one laying there in the morning.🙃  Deer are wusses, so are moose , contrary to popular belief.

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Re: Thoughts on .308 ?
« Reply #67 on: October 08, 2018, 10:46:26 PM »
Because all the cool people own, and use .308s.😉
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Re: Thoughts on .308 ?
« Reply #68 on: October 08, 2018, 10:54:29 PM »
I’m deer hunting with a .308 this year for the first time ever. Why not?
Just don’t make a habit of it or guys will start thinkn ur old......  :chuckle:

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Re: Thoughts on .308 ?
« Reply #69 on: October 08, 2018, 10:55:58 PM »
I’m deer hunting with a .308 this year for the first time ever. Why not?
Just don’t make a habit of it or guys will start thinkn ur old......  :chuckle:

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Re: Thoughts on .308 ?
« Reply #70 on: October 08, 2018, 10:59:44 PM »
I’m deer hunting with a .308 this year for the first time ever. Why not?
Just don’t make a habit of it or guys will start thinkn ur old......  :chuckle:
Maybe those old guys know something we don't? Lol! Like the 308 kills just as good as it has for years...maybe some like the newer whiz bang rounds, hoping it will make them more successful hunters i imagine. Doesn't work😉
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Re: Thoughts on .308 ?
« Reply #71 on: October 08, 2018, 11:06:24 PM »
My Savage 308 donor action......now a 6.5 Creedmoor.
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Re: Thoughts on .308 ?
« Reply #72 on: October 08, 2018, 11:09:50 PM »
Camp,

That 6.5 Grendel has that .308 out classed. Then again there are reasons for owning .308’s and 5.56’s. A cold one and the movie Patriot will give a guy a good under standing of “Common Chamberings”.



It certainly does. It's a beautiful gun.
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Re: Thoughts on .308 ?
« Reply #73 on: October 08, 2018, 11:14:19 PM »
Maybe some just run their yap to run their yap. Holes kill stuff! Run what ya brung!


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Re: Thoughts on .308 ?
« Reply #74 on: October 08, 2018, 11:17:14 PM »
I liked handgun hunting with my T/C Encore, 15 inch barrel in 308. Shot a whitetail over by Ridgerats and dropped dead in it's tracks.
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