The 308 family - capable of hunting anything in North America?

BigUglyMan said:
We're OCD about lots of things. I weigh my powder charges, even in the 416 Rigby and 470 Nitro to the tenth of a grain. I even debarred the flash holes and uniformed the primer pockets for both. Now tell me that's not a little on the twitchy side?
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I hear you. I have been slowly forcing myself to do less of those things. I guess it's human nature though, isn't it? BTW, I hope you are shooting sub-MOA with those .416 and .470 loads.:)
 
Why not? said:
The real sleeper in the 358 is a 250 gr spitzer started out at 2300+, and as you know that load easily shoots flat enough to take big game reliably out to 300yd.
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medvedqc said:
I don't think with a 18 inch barrel there is a factory load that met our requirement ....
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Factory load perhaps not given the reduced loads generally offered just in case someone is using an older rifle.

Hand loading may be a different matter.

Also where did the 18" barrel idea come from?
 
remington jim said:
NOT as Excelllent as the 338 FEDERAL ! ;) Flatter shooting- Better Bullets Higher BCs and Higher SD's - The " King of Little Cartridges " is the 338 FEDERAL ! :D jmo lol RJ
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Sorry buddy, for me the 358 is better.
For the distances I hunt BCs and SDs don't mean a thing.
One of my pet hunting bullets in my 358 is a cast gas-check 285 gr. RN.... can you imagine what the BC / SD is on that baby ??
I guess maybe I just have a personal dislike for the .338 caliber in particular.....
 
Kevan said:
Sorry buddy, for me the 358 is better.
For the distances I hunt BCs and SDs don't mean a thing.
One of my pet hunting bullets in my 358 is a cast gas-check 285 gr. RN.... can you imagine what the BC / SD is on that baby ??
I guess maybe I just have a personal dislike for the .338 caliber in particular.....
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We can ARGUE this on Sunday at Kammy ! LOL see you there ! ;) RJ
 
BigUglyMan said:
We're OCD about lots of things. I weigh my powder charges, even in the 416 Rigby and 470 Nitro to the tenth of a grain. I even debarred the flash holes and uniformed the primer pockets for both. Now tell me that's not a little on the twitchy side?
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I got that beat! For a while I was doing all that plus turning necks on my .375 Ultra brass; then I slapped myself, because that's just silly. So now I only deburr and uniform flash holes, and uniform primer pockets, and separate both cases and bullets by weight, and check run-out of the case, mark the low side of the case run-out so I can index each round to the same place in the chamber, and weigh each powder charge on both a balance beam scale and a digital scale, and mess with the powder charge until both scales agree, and measure the run-out of the bullet, after seating it with a Wilson in-line bullet seater in a Sinclair arbor press, and measure my primer seating depth, and use a bullet comparator to uniform my COL and . . . Thus I can sally forth and shoot 2-4 minute groups with a ghost ring and post on targets with no aiming point, or blaze away on moving targets. Hmmm, maybe I should do something so I spend less time at the loading bench. Naturally though, I get a little more carried away with the loads for my target rifle.
 
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Boomer said:
I got that beat! For a while I was doing all that plus turning necks on my .375 Ultra brass; then I slapped myself, because that's just silly. So now I only deburr and uniform flash holes, and uniform primer pockets, and separate both cases and bullets by weight, and check run-out of the case, mark the low side of the case run-out so I can index each round to the same place in the chamber, and weigh each powder charge on both a balance beam scale and a digital scale, and mess with the powder charge until both scales agree, and measure the run-out of the bullet, after seating it with a Wilson in-line bullet seater in a Sinclair arbor press, and measure my primer seating depth, and use a bullet comparator to uniform my COL and . . . Thus I can sally forth and shoot 2-4 minute groups with a ghost ring and post on targets with no aiming point, or blaze away on moving targets. Hmmm, maybe I should do something so I spend less time at the loading bench. Naturally though, I get a little more carried away with the loads for my target rifle.
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Yup, you're making good use of the "inside months" up there.
 
Boomer said:
I got that beat! For a while I was doing all that plus turning necks on my .375 Ultra brass; then I slapped myself, because that's just silly. So now I only deburr and uniform flash holes, and uniform primer pockets, and separate both cases and bullets by weight, and check run-out of the case, mark the low side of the case run-out so I can index each round to the same place in the chamber, and weigh each powder charge on both a balance beam scale and a digital scale, and mess with the powder charge until both scales agree, and measure the run-out of the bullet, after seating it with a Wilson in-line bullet seater in a Sinclair arbor press, and measure my primer seating depth, and use a bullet comparator to uniform my COL and . . . Thus I can sally forth and shoot 2-4 minute groups with a ghost ring and post on targets with no aiming point, or blaze away on moving targets. Hmmm, maybe I should do something so I spend less time at the loading bench. Naturally though, I get a little more carried away with the loads for my target rifle.
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I feel so....incompetent.
 
Bears are out here but not feeding much yet... the Ontario court shot down the attempt to block the spring bear hunt... so it is a go for May 1st... my son is looking for a spring archery bear to go with his archery turkey.
 
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