The ultimate lenght for a .308

[Wiktor]

Hi!!

I have standard savage FP 10 in caliber.308 Win.I have chage to a MCM stock and want to reduce some weight in the heavy barrel. I cant find anything about what is the ultimate lenght of this caliber..
I have seen that some "tactical rifle" has a 18"-26" barrels ...
Pleade can anyone explane to me and helt me..??

Many thanks...

Wiktor "a beginner"

 

[Guest]

It depends on your range and use intended
What bullets are you gonna shoot and at what ranges ?

 

[Wiktor]

My rifle is for hunting 300yards and training 600yards. I belive it´s my limited distance to shoot.

The bullets I use is a Nosler BST or BT in 165-168 gr. And for training is a molycoated 168 gr. matchbullets.

Tanks for all helps.

Wiktor

 

[jb1000br]

I would suggest 168-178 a-max for your situation. Also, you want the most velocity you can get, so let the barrel as long as you can stand it.

JB

 

[Guest]

jb100br is right you want your barrel as long as you can stand to get the best velocity out of it but if you feel the need to have a very short tube then a barrel as short as 18" would work , the bullets you have chosen will still be traveling plenty fast enough to be stabil and have enough thump for deer.
I shoot a 15" barreled Encore pistol in 308 , my load is 48grs of Varget and a 150gr Ballistic tip ,I get a velocity of
just under 2700fps with great accuracy
I have loaded some 168gr Bergers up to see what they would do and was able to get just over 2600fps with 47.5grs of Varget but the recoil was stout , but at that speed I believe that the 168gr Berger VLD would stay supersonic well past 600yds.
I have killed deer with the 150gr bullets out to 275yds+/-