hunting moose with my 308
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Inside 300m any good factory ammo with proper shot placement will yeild a dead moose with little trouble. Shoot what ever groups best in your rifle.
Some suggestions: nosler partition, nosler accubond, barnes x, hornady innerbond...
Some suggestions: nosler partition, nosler accubond, barnes x, hornady innerbond...
Should be no worries, i always underrated the old 308 but ive been seeing them do a good job lately.
FWIW a ladie from Aus went to canada an shot a Moose, with a 243, she waited for the right shot but it got it done. the guide preffered her to use that cal as she was more comfy with it.
go get em
FWIW a ladie from Aus went to canada an shot a Moose, with a 243, she waited for the right shot but it got it done. the guide preffered her to use that cal as she was more comfy with it.
go get em
CreamySmooth
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I use 150 gr Hornady Light Mag SST's for everything. It's done a few bull elk, many cows, a couple moose and many, many deer. probably don't need the light mags, but I like em.
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You could spend a fortune on factory .308 ammo loaded with premium bullets, trying to find which shoots best in your rifle. Provided you can manage 3 MOA, 3 shot groups, out to 300 yards, from field positions, that is all the accuracy you need. A moose after all is a big target. Regardless of whether they were pushed from a .30/06, a .30/40 Krag, a .300 magnum, a .300 Savage, a .303 Brit, or a .308, traditional .30 caliber 180 gr cup and core bullets impacting at 2400-2500 fps have slain a train load of moose over the years. Unless it is all you can find, I would avoid blue box Federal ammo. This stuff isn't particularly accurate in any .30/06 I've used it in, it struggles to make 3 MOA at 100, and I see no reason why it would be any better in a .308. Still, if that is all you can find, it will kill your moose, but at 300 yards the group might be closer to 4 MOA than it is to 3. That is still a dead broadside moose. Conversely, Winchester 180 gr Power Points, or Remington 180 gr Core-lokts both produce reasonably good accuracy and produce good terminal performance. I think you are better off to purchase 100 rounds of a single brand of ammo and get in some trigger time under practical field conditions, than you are to worry about a difference in accuracy of a half MOA between brand A and brand B, then perhaps by next year you'll want to handload.
I use 180 pointed soft point in my 308 for both deer and moose. Sight in to be about 2" high at 100. That makes the rifle about bang on at 200 and a foot low at 300. Rule of thumb - don't aim above the moose and you will hit it.
These are a good load too...
X2 on the Silvertips. I shot one big bull at 325 yards with one. It hit ribs on the way in and shoulder blade on the way out. Moose went 30 yards before laying down.
Another vote for 180 grain silvertips. I nailed a spike bull elk with that very bullet with a .308 Remmy 740 and it dropped him in his tracks. I recovered the bullet under the hide on the far side. Never seen a more perfect mushroom. Wound channel was excellent. Not considered premium, but it has been dropping game in its tracks for years.
X2 on that or Triple-Shock X-Bullet just get a good Bonded bullet.
Federal blue box group just fine in my .308; getting ~1.5 MOA with my 5.5lbs trigger.
Still, as others have said, 165-180gr are recommended for heavy (CXP2) animals such as moose.
