ORIGINAL: stubblejumper
If you can get as good or better performance with a heavier bullet, plus have more bullet choices, and cheaper ammo why wouldn't you?
Iuse a bullet heavy enough to do the job.Using a bullet of better construction is a better alternative to a heavier bullet.You get the same or more penetration,flatter trajectory,and less recoil.Since I reload,I have the maximum amount of suitable bullet choices and at the lowest possible price for the load.
Now you post
More offerings does make the .308 better if even one of those offerings outperform the 7mm-08...which they do.
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Having dozens of bullet choices in a .308 more than makes up for any small performance gain from a 7mm-08. The majority of the other .308 loads out perform the 7mm-08.
First it is the performance of the majority of loads that matters,then it isonly the performance of thebest load that is important.You keep changing your priority to try tomake the 308win look superior.
the 165 grain SST .308 has more energy and there is less than 1" difference in trajectory. I've only been comparing out to 300 yards as that is about the max effective distance for those rounds on elk sized game IMO. Also I don't know that the average hunter shoots beyond 300 yards. I personally don't think so.
The original topic was not the 7mm-08 vs the 308win as an elk load.You tried to make it that to try and make the 308win appear superior.
However it is very entertaining to watch you attempt to keep changing the rules in order to try and make your case.You sound like a saleman trying to twist data to make a sale.
Any premium bullet you want in almost any grain is available for the .308. .308 has more retained energy within 300 yards. It shoots just as flat. It recoils the same or less.
This makes it better suited as an elk cartridge.
Anything else is arguing semantics.
Personal attacks against me won't help you.