What wouldn't you do with a .308 Winchester?

If I had to have one rifle and cartridge, it'd be a .308 bolt action. Ammo is handy and it does get the job done whether it be war, target shooting or hunting. May not be perfect, but in reality it works.

What I wouldn't do is shoot at steel plates under 25yds. Shrapnel hurts. :(
 
I use a .308 for a benchgun for testing bullets, .308s(mine anyways) are very accurate, even with factory barrels and triggers(Rem. 700). I do not use it for hunting big game, nor do I use other smallbores for that purpose. I prefer to use .45 and .50 cal. rifles for hunting big game, and they account for 90% of my hunting, sometimes I take out my .356 or 38/55 or other small cals. when not hunting anything too serious.
 
I took down a grouse at 50 yards with my iron sighted M14. Head shot. Had a nice supper that night since my brother did one with his 22-250 as well.

.308. Not only for the big game. ;)
 
ben hunchak said:
I use a .308 for a benchgun for testing bullets, .308s(mine anyways) are very accurate, even with factory barrels and triggers(Rem. 700). I do not use it for hunting big game, nor do I use other smallbores for that purpose. I prefer to use .45 and .50 cal. rifles for hunting big game, and they account for 90% of my hunting, sometimes I take out my .356 or 38/55 or other small cals. when not hunting anything too serious.
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Are you kidding? When did .308 become a small bore?

No disrespect, you can shoot whatever you want, with whatever you want, but accuracy is far more important in most hunting situations than calibre. The recoil and muzzle blast from large calibers will far outweigh any advantages they may have if they cause the shooter to flinch.

OK, I'll admit it. I don't like huge recoil. It hurts!

Oh yeah, and for my 2 cents, the .308 can take pretty much anything on the planet. I shouldn't have given mine away to my Dad!
 
Longwalker said:
Out of the hundreds of thousands of big game animals taken by hunters in Canada each year, NONE are brown bears, they live in another country. Grizzly bears are not so big that a .308 isn't fully adequate with good bullets. Polar bears are so seldom hunted that they hardly count, and when hunted with dogs most Inuit shoot them with rifles no more powerful than .308.
I'm getting very tired of theoretical experts dissing perfectly good all-around game loads because "you can't hunt the big bears with them......
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Hunting BC's big coastal bears is quite the thrill. Doing the same in thick bush takes big huge balls.
Depending on where you are BC's coastal bears can every bit as big as Alaska's....There is no such thing as a "small" grizzly.

Hard for you to imagine over the internet, but that 308 you are so fond of will feel incredibly small when its time to start shooting.
It gets even better when the bear you just shot gets up (most likely will) and runs into the thickest bush you have ever seen.

You can't always shoot both shoulders.
 
The .308 and such have always been considered small bores, actually the .375 H&H is considered a small bore, medium bores start at the .416" approx.
 
74noots said:
Are you kidding? When did .308 become a small bore?

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I don't pay much attention to the small/medium/big bore designations of old, but I think that they classed up to 308 a small bore, 33-375 medium and .400 and above bog bore..

Of course, they had different bullets and the designations these days are relaly for those that care about #### like that. I'm more inclined to say "yes it will kill a bear easy or no, bad idea...:p
 
If good old 5.56 can do this then 308 can definitely do it better. And yes there is such thing as a "Small Grizzly"

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WOW! Boone and Crockett Microscopic record :p

That is an unusual hunting rifle.... I thought those were restricted?
 
If I had a once in a lifetime grizzly tag, that's not the bear I'd have chosen, nor is that the rifle I'd have chosen to carry in bear country. But we don't know the circumstances leading up to the pic.
 
Other than a handful of muzzleloader kills last year the .308 has been the "big" bore in the hunting rifles in the last year. The 300, 338, 375, 416 etc never left the safe and I see the trend continuing.
I just did some neat get tests with E-Tips, at 100 yards the 180 from a 308 out penetrated the 180 - 300 WM and 150 7 RM. It beat the others by 2 inches on average which means absolutely nothing in the big picture but I still found the results interesting. The Etip is impressive by the way and I have some GMX on the way to test.
 
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