RE: Looking for a good deer hunting rifle
 

yep, 308, my favorite deer caliber, next is 270win.

RE: Looking for a good deer hunting rifle
 

I have a new 270 WSM Savage with the Accu-Trigger. I love it so far. Best thing out there for the money. IMO. Great choice of Caliber. I have a 308 in the Browning A-Bolt.

RE: Looking for a good deer hunting rifle
 

I have shot the savage but it does not shoot as well as the browning a-bolt.The.308 is also a good caliber but a 30-06 is more versable.You can shoot a deer,elk,moose,bear,pig and more with a 30-06.If you want just a deer gun the .308 will serve you fine.

RE: Looking for a good deer hunting rifle
 

Good choice the 308 will level most anything on this continent if the shooter does his part.

RE: Looking for a good deer hunting rifle
 

I'll second the positive comments on the 308. The difference between it and the 30-06 are so little that (unless you get into the heavy bullets) a few inches of barrel length can make then identical.

Savage is also argueably the best-for-the-money rifle out there right now. The prettiest, no. The fanciest, no. But an accurate, functioning, solid and dependable rifle...absolutely.

RE: Looking for a good deer hunting rifle
 

I love the 308win-based family of cartridges 243win, 260rem (my favourite of course) 7mm/08, 308win and I am very impressed with the new 338 Federal.
For what your after then either the 260rem, 7mm/08 or the 308win would be great as to the rifle I like Remington’s Sako’s and Styer’s.

RE: Looking for a good deer hunting rifle
 

You could do much worse than a .308.

I find the .308 to be very docile, predictable, accurate, andjust plain easy.
When shooting at paper, it isone of my favorites.

The .308 also lets youjoin the "sexy" short action crowd....
though the Savage riflemay pretty much offset that.

It will work on deer for sure.
Could even qualify as a "30-06 equivalent" should you lose your waystray out West.