30-06 vs. 308

If you are a member of the high road (very good firearm forum), look for his threads in the hunting section. Very interesting stuff. They trade a lot up there. He'll trade meat for gas for the boats or snowmobile or a box of bullets....etc. Neat to read about.
 
Woodrow F Call said:
If you are a member of the high road (very good firearm forum), look for his threads in the hunting section. Very interesting stuff. They trade a lot up there. He'll trade meat for gas for the boats or snowmobile or a box of bullets....etc. Neat to read about.
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I will have too check and see, but I think I'm already a member. As embarrassing as it is, I use to be on a few gun forums, when I was still collecting, but can't remember if I was on the high road. After I sold off most of my guns, I really got out of the loop...
 
308 or 30-06 is good. Ive shot more game with a 308 though, 3 elk, from 50 yards to 200 yards, a couple dozen deer, and maybe a dozen antelope.

depends alot on you. how much will you be shooting it? box a year? or reguarly. do you reload? 308 uses less powder, 30-06 can go faster with a given bullet weight. for

with your style of hunting, do you need all the range you can get? or are most of your shots within 300-400 yards?

I like the 308. have hunted with it long enough to know what it will do. I do have magums, 300 and 338. and I like them alot. but more and more I reach for my short light winchester compact 308 with a 20" barrel. it has more than enough power for anything im likely to run into at 400 yards and less. recoil is negligable, allowing fast 2nd shots. is fast to the shoulder, easy to carry, easy on the pocketbook, and just flat out works.

just this last season, I shot 2 whitetails, with 2 shots, in about 30 seconds. both were running, and both were nice lung shots {I did catch a little bit of the shoulder on the first one of them}. I did have 2 tags. the first was running right to left, and the second left to right. at 60 yards for the first and about 100 for the second.

magnums give you great reach if you practice enough to take advantage of them, but I find that the recoil increases my recovery time between shots. they are also noisier, heavier, more expensive to shoot, hold fewer cartridges, and generally have longer barrels.
 
Here's a simple answer. .308 is a NATO round and you will always be able to have access to ammunition if needed. 30-06 although used to be used for military purposes is solely a hunting round now of days, and obviously has better hunting loads. If you want a doomsday gun and hunter 308. You want a pure hunter 30-06.
 
For a do-all rifle, go with a Savage in 30-06 or .300 Win Mag. Both these cartridges are widely available, and both are ballistically superior to the .308/7.62x51 at range. Savage rifles are affordable, tough-as-nails, and accurate as hell. My 2 cents.
 
Well I got to this one a bit late but in my opinion the 30-06 is the way to go. It has a faster round than the 308 and can drop anything in the USA. Its all about a well placed round anyway. I have a Rem 700 30-06, and love it. I have the fluted barrel and kind of wish I didn't get that. The advantage is, its a bit lighter but boy do you feel it when you pull the trigger. The extra weight absorbs some of the recoil. It seems as though the money spent was in the scope. I paid more for the glass than I did for the rifle.
 
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