308 or 300 win mag, cant decide.

I think you need to decide if you want a target rifle or a hunting rifle. I have several target rifles in .308 that run 12-14 lbs and a hunting rifle .300 WM that run 7-8 lbs. The target rifles I can shoot all day (not rested, off my elbows with a jacket and sling) but I wouldn't want to carry any of them around in the bush. The lighter hunting rifle is no problem to carry all day but I wouldn't want to shoot 50-60 rounds a day out of it.
 
So I would need to buy back my 300 win mag rifle from my brother in law, and also get a 308 target rifle :p
He wont sell it back, eh.
 
To the OP:

- how much experience shooting do you have?
- how much .308 Win and .300 Win Mag have you fired? In hunting-weight (7-10#) or target-weight (12-18#) rifles? Do you have a flinch, to your knowledge, with either of them?
- will this be mostly a plinking/target-shooting rifle, which you will sometimes take hunting? Vice versa?
 
If you are building a target/hunting rifle, you are building an indy car out of a pickup. Far more bad habits to be learned from a 300WM. Do yourself a favor and buy a good varmint rifle as a platform for targets and go and buy a cheap hunting rifle. $350 Stevens kill them just as dead as a $2500 Sendero and who cares if it gets a little scuffed up in the truck.
 
You dont need a big caliber to take down big game in N.A., just a good shot right where you want to hit it. The only thing you cant kill with a perfect shot in .308 is a Bison, but then again even a Bison will require two shots from a higher power caliber. 20 rounds from a 300Wm while target shooting is more than enough for some people to call it a day, i would go with the .308 and consider buying a 300WM down the road.
 
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