All things .308 Win

[General RE LEE]

Excuse me if I’ve already posted this but a 178 ELDX smacks the living poo out of a steel plate down range.

 

[akmerle]

Excuse me if I’ve already posted this but a 178 ELDX smacks the living poo out of a steel plate down range.

Those are what my Sig Cross prefers, and seem to always be on sale at my LGS for under $30 a box. Getting MV of a little over 2450fps with its 16” barrel and Banish 46 can, and comps out to a little over 1600fps / 1000ft-lbs at 600 yards. Both conveniently are the general minimums for velocity for ELDX bullets, and energy for medium sized game (my 7PRC does my big game work unless on Kodiak, then its 338). So is nice to know my general comfortable hunting range is within the rifle / cartridge / bullet’s effective range.

 

[Tacoland]

Excuse me if I’ve already posted this but a 178 ELDX smacks the living poo out of a steel plate down range.

Love that bullet... but I have one rifle that apparently does not. Getting diagonal stringing with factory 178 ELD-X.

It's not a good system, Ruger American w/ Athlon scope that only gets used for close ranges in the brush. ~2.5 MOA with most ammo, ~2 w/ 150gr Core-Lokt, but this seems weird:


Adjusted zero and shot a 20 round group (the two high ones were #5 and #7 and were 100% me):


Am I seeing a pattern or is the same size too small here?

 

[tacks]

155gr Scenar is the answer.

What do the 155s do? Mushroom, peel pedals, pedals come off?

 

[hunting1]

What do the 155s do? Mushroom, peel pedals, pedals come off?

Haven’t caught one! There is a 100-pages on 24-hour campfire is why i tried them. They are accurate and kill great. They do a lot in .308

 

[General RE LEE]

Threw a muzzle brake on the 308 Tikka CTR today and shot 50 rounds of 168 ELDM handloads. I was hammering the 8” plate at 600 yards in 15-25 MPH winds.

I forgot how much easier it is to spot impacts with a good brake on a 308.

 

[xSKINNYx]

My 308 has certainly seen a resurgence.

 

[ianpadron]

Anyone have any experience with the 168 ELDM Superperformance? My Sig Cross preferred the 178 ELDX's compared to the white box 168 ELDM's, black box 168 AMAX, and 150 SST Superperformacne. But the 168 ELDM Superperformance were on sale at the LGS earlier this week for $24 a box, so bought the last 5 boxes left and hoping for the best. The extra 140fps over the white box ELDM sure would be nice, as well as extend the 1800fps impact velocity another 100yds past the 178 ELDX.

I've yet to see a .308 that shoots the Superformance well.

I dealt with barely acceptable accuracy with them in a Kimber of mine before moving on. They were cookin' at almost 2900 fps out of a 22" barrel, but they were like 2-2.5 MOA

Switched to 168 TMKs in the Federal TMK line as recommended by Form and haven't looked back.