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The Basics, Starting Out
Can 308 do everything you need a rifle to do under 600 yards?
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<blockquote data-quote="Canhunter35" data-source="post: 2134120" data-attributes="member: 101677"><p>Until commercial rangefinders became widely available, no ppl haven't been dropping elk at 600yards plus. I'm pretty sure Berger bullets predate commercial rangefinder which started to really show up in the 90s, and those old models had trouble consistently bouncing 600plus yards in hunting conditions. A 10 twist is a fast twist 308, that'll easily stabilize a 215gr. I'm not saying a 308 won't kill an elk at 600, but 30years it was not commonplace and would've been a small group of shooters actually shooting elk that far with 308s. It's still a small group of shooters that'll take an elk 600plus yards. I shot a cow elk at 590yds last fall with a 2.5mil wind hold with my 7rem mag and 180hybrids, that's a major wind hold with a 308 and standard 175grain hunting bullet. There's theory then there's rubber meets the road in hunting</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Canhunter35, post: 2134120, member: 101677"] Until commercial rangefinders became widely available, no ppl haven’t been dropping elk at 600yards plus. I’m pretty sure Berger bullets predate commercial rangefinder which started to really show up in the 90s, and those old models had trouble consistently bouncing 600plus yards in hunting conditions. A 10 twist is a fast twist 308, that’ll easily stabilize a 215gr. I’m not saying a 308 won’t kill an elk at 600, but 30years it was not commonplace and would’ve been a small group of shooters actually shooting elk that far with 308s. It’s still a small group of shooters that’ll take an elk 600plus yards. I shot a cow elk at 590yds last fall with a 2.5mil wind hold with my 7rem mag and 180hybrids, that’s a major wind hold with a 308 and standard 175grain hunting bullet. There’s theory then there’s rubber meets the road in hunting [/QUOTE]
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