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Best deer caliber and long distance caliber
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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 2417498" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>People are a lot easier to kill than medium and large game.</p><p></p><p>It's the most popular because it was the Round NATO settled on in the late 50's to standardize ammunition, not because any ballistic superiority.</p><p></p><p>For ballistic superiority and lower recoil even our own military is moving away from the 7.62x51/.308 Winchester for our light and medium machine guns and for specialty rifles in favor of 6.5 and 6.8mm Rounds.</p><p></p><p>As for the WM being "overkill" compare time of flight with comparable bullets between the .308Win and .300WM along with wind drift.</p><p></p><p>Then compare them both to the 6.5CM or 260 Remington running similar 140gr bullets.</p><p></p><p>Yes, you can do a whole lot with the .308win but it's a round that is decades behind in technology and performance compared to many of our more modern rounds and in most ways inferior to the venerable old 300wm which was developed in 1963.</p><p></p><p>Now if one isn't going to shoot beyond 400yards the .308 or 30-06 gives you all the performance necessary to kill a deer but, this is the LR Hunting and shooting forum.</p><p></p><p>As for the advantages of the .308, well it uses less powder and doesn't kick as much and that's about it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 2417498, member: 30902"] People are a lot easier to kill than medium and large game. It's the most popular because it was the Round NATO settled on in the late 50's to standardize ammunition, not because any ballistic superiority. For ballistic superiority and lower recoil even our own military is moving away from the 7.62x51/.308 Winchester for our light and medium machine guns and for specialty rifles in favor of 6.5 and 6.8mm Rounds. As for the WM being "overkill" compare time of flight with comparable bullets between the .308Win and .300WM along with wind drift. Then compare them both to the 6.5CM or 260 Remington running similar 140gr bullets. Yes, you can do a whole lot with the .308win but it's a round that is decades behind in technology and performance compared to many of our more modern rounds and in most ways inferior to the venerable old 300wm which was developed in 1963. Now if one isn't going to shoot beyond 400yards the .308 or 30-06 gives you all the performance necessary to kill a deer but, this is the LR Hunting and shooting forum. As for the advantages of the .308, well it uses less powder and doesn't kick as much and that's about it. [/QUOTE]
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