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Where does .308 Winchester excel?
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<blockquote data-quote="gvjm" data-source="post: 2621438" data-attributes="member: 52138"><p>Just my experience, I did the 6.5 CM thing and I've owned at least one 308 my whole adult life. I only hunt deer/hogs/coyotes, whatever shows up at the deer lease that the owner wants gone. Ranges are under 300 yards. But in the field I saw nothing that impressed me with the 6.5. It seemed to me that animals ran farther and bled less from the 6.5 than the 308, I don't need to mention my 7 mag. Even my 300 Hamr caused more bleeding. After 3 kills I gave up on the CM, just not enough terminal damage on game. Another reason is bullets. Since I'm not a PRS shooter and would never take a shot longer than 500 yards on game the 308 offers at least one bullet that outperforms the 6.5. The Speer 165 BTSP with a .520 BC advertised. I can get 2840fps out of my 24" 700 with MOA all day. When you put that bullet with that velocity into a ballistic calculator it outperforms almost all 6.5 hunting loads. I used it last year as well as my 7 mag and you'd be hard pressed to tell any difference in performance, at least in that example. I just think in normal hunting situations the 308 is superior. In long range events, clearly the 6.5 out runs it. As to recoil I'm either lucky or smart, before they went out of production I bought a Knoxx Axiom recoil reducing stock for my 308, recoil is of absolutely no concern.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="gvjm, post: 2621438, member: 52138"] Just my experience, I did the 6.5 CM thing and I've owned at least one 308 my whole adult life. I only hunt deer/hogs/coyotes, whatever shows up at the deer lease that the owner wants gone. Ranges are under 300 yards. But in the field I saw nothing that impressed me with the 6.5. It seemed to me that animals ran farther and bled less from the 6.5 than the 308, I don't need to mention my 7 mag. Even my 300 Hamr caused more bleeding. After 3 kills I gave up on the CM, just not enough terminal damage on game. Another reason is bullets. Since I'm not a PRS shooter and would never take a shot longer than 500 yards on game the 308 offers at least one bullet that outperforms the 6.5. The Speer 165 BTSP with a .520 BC advertised. I can get 2840fps out of my 24" 700 with MOA all day. When you put that bullet with that velocity into a ballistic calculator it outperforms almost all 6.5 hunting loads. I used it last year as well as my 7 mag and you'd be hard pressed to tell any difference in performance, at least in that example. I just think in normal hunting situations the 308 is superior. In long range events, clearly the 6.5 out runs it. As to recoil I'm either lucky or smart, before they went out of production I bought a Knoxx Axiom recoil reducing stock for my 308, recoil is of absolutely no concern. [/QUOTE]
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