All things .308 Win

[SC HUNTER]

All this 308 talk has me wanting another one. I've got a heavy barreled 700 in 308 stuck back, I'm looking around at lighter weight ones. It will probably be a tikka or an xbolt. We shall see. I need the youngest kid to get old enough to shoot so I can buy him guns for me to try out.

 

[Fireflyfishing]

IMO I think 18 is the sweet spot for a suppressed 308. I carried one for years and became quite fond of it.

I’m quite fond of 20”. Even carrying slung, no issues in brush/timber. Touch more velocity than the shorties,

 

[Hondo64d]

I’m quite fond of 20”. Even carrying slung, no issues in brush/timber. Touch more velocity than the shorties,

That’s my choice too. My place is generally open country hunting and the shorter 6” suppressor helps too.

John

 

[sierracharlie338]

I’m quite fond of 20”. Even carrying slung, no issues in brush/timber. Touch more velocity than the shorties,

That’s my choice too. My place is generally open country hunting and the shorter 6” suppressor helps too.

John

To be fair the rifle started as a 20 but was threaded 9/16x24 and I didn’t want to run an adapter back then so it got chopped and threaded at 18.

I’ll concede and say 18-20 is where it’s at

 

[Stinky Coyote]

If you were to try and find the smaller siblings to the 308 what would they be? 6.5 Grendel, 6 ARC?

6.5 Grendel, 123gr eldm, but at factory ammo pressure it's a bit slower in a same barrel length, I think if you reload to bolt gun pressures you'd be almost identical to a 308 168gr eldm. Basically identical bc and sd and pretty close to same muzzle velocity. If shooting grendel factory ammo just run another 4" on the barrel perhaps to mirror the 308. Take with grain of salt, I'm generalizing. Otherwise same unlimited barrel life and about 55% less recoil factory ammo to factory ammo with grendel.

In theory a 6.5 GT with those 123's might be the perfect mirror to a 308 168 and not need to be hot loads to equal the fps in given barrel length? I shoot factory only and only grendels and 308s in house here. We just hunt, nothing else. Would be cool to see if a 6.5 GT 123 eldm combo became popular for those that value everything about 308 but would like a bit less recoil. It's obviously designed for competition stuff but can see the potential for it outside of that and mirroring everything a 308 does with say ~40% less recoil would not be a bad target for something 'new'...imo.

 

[Stinky Coyote]

Well, regardless of this weird tit for tat…my opinion is the .308 is a fantastic cartridge…based on my experiences.

• Pretty easy to get a rifle to shoot well with most factory ammo.
• Can shoot a variety of projectiles.
• Shoots well with different barrel lengths.
• Easy to hand load with good results.
• Relatively cheap to reload.
• Great barrel life.
• It’s “inherently accurate.”
• When braked or suppressed, there’s very little recoil.
• And last, but not least….it kills stuff and fills my freezers.

nearly covers it all, what about resale? does anyone even bat an eye on used 308's as potentially being 'shot out'?