TomFromTheShade

I think you made a good decision. The Savage is a good quality rifle and the .308 is a great caliber for everything from varmints to moose.

You get the added benefit of being able to buy surplus ammo, hunting ammo, match ammo, and having an unlimited choice in bullets and powders when reloading your own ammo.

btiger53

Say duckdog132, I hunt in west Texas and so of my shots are up to 300-350 yds. I shoot a VanGuard .308. I have not missed using this caliber. I also shoot a Savage 7WSM. Both are extremly accurate. I not blowing smoke because the .308 was weapon as a sharp shooter.

Coyotestalker

And still is....

HeviShot

Someone said they use the .308 under 200 yards, and a .270 for anything past that. I hope people don't take that the wrong way and think the .308 isn't an excellent long range performer, it would be a mistake to think that.

They are almost identical in down range energy and have about the same B.C. with most ammo. The .308 gets you more versatility because you can load it with slightly heavier bullets depending on the hunt.

Im still waiting to nab a whitetail at 600 yards and beyond, Ive gotten several around 500 with the .308 and I couldnt be happier with its performance. The Sciroccos and Accubonds at that yardage are great.

If its a planned long range elk or moose hunt, the .308 gets put away and the .300rum comes out Its a wonderful elk killer at 800 yards and further.

Oh and this be my first post, how did this little community slip past me?

Bullkllr

Its a wonderful elk killer at 800 yards and further.

Ouch! That's a loong shot! Guess you could do it...
...but I'm not.

HeviShot

I hope you saw that I mentioned the .300rum at that distance, it would inhumane to do that with a .308, on an elk anyways. With your average size deer, a good .308 load yields around 1,000ft lbs of energy at 6 or 700 yards. Assuming a good bullet is used, thats more than enough for a clean kill.

800 isn't long when you do nothing but long range shooting/hunting. I used 2 think 400 yards was my limit. Using the right tool for the job always helps

chandlerwilliams

i would suggest a 270.

bigcountry

Bull crap. I have owned 3 300RUM's and did target practice that long. The brass you use alone can make velocity deltas that make you either make the shot or not. If you laser rangefinder is off by 25 yards, you can completely miss an elk. I do talk to people to do nothing but that, and all of them will tell you, 1.5MOA is respectable at that range.

James B

In this magical long range shooting, don't forget than even a 10 mile per hour breeze which you can hardly feel, will drift the best 300 Mag bullet traveling at 3400 fps, 29.5 inches at 800 yards. Don't forget that that breeze can change in both speed and direction several times in that distance. This is even more true in elk country where elevations change and shot angles change. The range, even if you know it for sure is but ONE SMALL factor in pulling off those shots. These extra things can not be practiced because you can't duplicate these conditions in practice even if you knew what to expect. Like it or not there is more dumb LUCK envolved in shooting past 500 yards than there is skill. I will catch hell for saying that but I shot 500 Meter steel silhouettes for years. This is where we knew exactly to the inch how far the tergets were away, had a very good idea with wind flags what the wind was doing and still its easy to miss even at a measly 500 meters. I have seen the wind flags waving two different directions on some days on the way to the target. You can't see air currents but they are almost always there. Long range shooting is great fun at Targets, it should hardly ever be tried on live game. This is not even considering that it can take hours to cross mountain canyons to get to the game that you shot at. Fat chance you will ever find that animal if it was not fatally hit and went down in its tracks for good. When they show that stuff on hunting shows, you only see the shots that were successful, they edit out most of it. Sorry I don't like iffy shots at real animals. If your a decent hunter those shots are just not needed. That once in a life time trophy that I keep hearing about does not mean much if you blow several attempts before you connect. It happens way to often.

buckstalker1187

Amen James...I totally agree with you.....although shots are managable at the range, they should be onlytried at the range,not be attempted at live animals...
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