308 win and the berger 215

[StanleyActual]

Dang it this thread has me thinking of a 30" light palma barrel. Either remage or shouldered short chamber. rent a reamer and have at it lol.

Running heavies was kind of an afterthought for this rifle unfortunetly. I have an unfired Bigjorn Origin with a 22" 1:10 Bartlien CF in a Rem Varmint contour in a Mesa Altitude stock I plan on using as light weight hunter right now. After Running some numbers, the heavies would 100% be the way to go though. Was kicking around HH's or BD2's but I like the way those heavy Bergers run in a 308.

 

[xsn10s]

Running heavies was kind of an afterthought for this rifle unfortunetly. I have an unfired Bigjorn Origin with a 22" 1:10 Bartlien CF in a Rem Varmint contour in a Mesa Altitude stock I plan on using as light weight hunter right now. After Running some numbers, the heavies would 100% be the way to go though. Was kicking around HH's or BD2's but I like the way those heavy Bergers run in a 308.

You could try some 185 Bergers. Nosler has one 168gr load running 2900 fps with Ramshot Big Game. That makes me wonder what a 185 Berger would do with RS BG or RL17.

 

[StanleyActual]

Yeah I've heard a lot of guys running the 185 Juggernauts in their 308's with great success

 

[Ray Gross]

As noted above, a SAAMI spec .308 chamber really struggles with bullets 200 grs and up. It will shoot them, but you are giving up a lot of powder space because the heavy bullets need to be seated fairly deep.

One of the more common FTR chambers (2013 FTR Team chamber) has a throat .088 longer than the SAAMI throat and Berger 185's and 200's are only seated about 40% of the way down the neck. 30 inch barrels where the norm with some 28's and 32's and a few 34" barrels.

I don't have a lot of current info regarding the 215's other than some of the FTR teams were experimenting with them 6-7 years ago. At the time, the 215's were not scoring as well as the 185's or 200's. That may have changed since.

 

[jpd676]

I'm shooting the 208 Amax in my SAMMI chambered Remington 700 LTR. I'm at 2400 fps but I had them at 2525; accuracy was one hole at 2400 so I stayed there. A .308 will never be a speed demon. I've killed elk, deer and antelope with this combo.