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Improving the 308 Win performance
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<blockquote data-quote="Wachsmann" data-source="post: 2724200" data-attributes="member: 10429"><p>So I have a question for everyone. What do you think the minimum energy and velocity would you use to kill a mule deer and elk? I'll put mine out there first since I put the question out. For me I would consider the bullet and manufacture specs but really what I'm getting at is for me it's 1600fps and 1000ft/lbs for a deer or smaller animal. For an elk I think still 1600fps and 1200fp/lbs of energy. This is mainly looking at cup and core bullets. Solids it would be more velocity and I would take the manufacturer consideration into reference and try to find post/YouTube on terminal data that is viewable even if it's someone shooting a large ham at some distance that is catching the bullet. I generally search these out for both cup and core as well as solids. But I mainly shoot cup and core style bullets. But the 175's numbers <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤔" title="Thinking face :thinking:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" data-shortname=":thinking:" />.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Wachsmann, post: 2724200, member: 10429"] So I have a question for everyone. What do you think the minimum energy and velocity would you use to kill a mule deer and elk? I’ll put mine out there first since I put the question out. For me I would consider the bullet and manufacture specs but really what I’m getting at is for me it’s 1600fps and 1000ft/lbs for a deer or smaller animal. For an elk I think still 1600fps and 1200fp/lbs of energy. This is mainly looking at cup and core bullets. Solids it would be more velocity and I would take the manufacturer consideration into reference and try to find post/YouTube on terminal data that is viewable even if it’s someone shooting a large ham at some distance that is catching the bullet. I generally search these out for both cup and core as well as solids. But I mainly shoot cup and core style bullets. But the 175’s numbers 🤔. [/QUOTE]
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