I know .308's don't sell very well here in the west. Too bad - there is so little difference between it and the 30/06 - particularly with factory ammunition. I guess when you hold the two up side-by-side, the .308 looks like George Bush standing next to Arnold Swartzenegger. I shot an elk last year with my .308 just so I could say I used it for something other than punching holes in paper. It worked just fine. The fact that this cartridge is the king of the sniper rifle calibers is no small coincidence.