Need caliber suggestions

[MCgunner]

Maybe I'm wrong (it's been known to happen), but from what I've read, it seems like the 6mm platform offers more options for target / varmint / deer hunting than does the .308.

Maybe you're wrong... While the .308 is a little much for prairie dogs, it can do the job. The .243 is a little much, too, frankly. This is the relm of the .22 centerfire, but they're not much on deer. The .243 is a fine whitetail deer rifle, but the .308 can take anything in the lower 48 from moose to elk to whitetail to large hogs much more efficiently than a 6mm. I'll take the .308, thanks. Also, the .308 is by FAR the more popular target round. Perhaps that's because of the military rifles in some of the competition, but it is a very accurate round and easy to reload for.

No, I don't shoot surplus stuff in my rifle either, not no, but HELL no! I've never fired a factory .308 round, tell you the truth of it. I can reload this gun with premium ammo for probably cheaper than corrosive primed junk ammo. I haven't run the math, but powder goes a long ways in this caliber and bullets are about 12 bucks a hundred for Nosler. Primers about 2.25 a hundred. Brass is everywhere and dirt cheap and even at max loads, it can be reloaded more times than any full power belted magnum case. Military brass is TOUGH and that's what I get for reloading. It's also cheap.

I've taken several head of hogs, several deer, and several coyotes with my .308 so far. I took one of those coyotes at nearly 400 yards. Bullet drop way I had it sighted in with the load I was using, was about 8". Nailed that song doggy. My confidence in that little gun really elevated after that one, LOL.

 

[Brian Smith]

Since everyone has a different opinion about the perfect calibre I will not enter into that discussion . My expierence with the 243 on deer sized game (after hunting several years with someone who used one) is that you load your 243 with different bullet weights for different puropses. My friend liked to brag about how fast and flat his 243 shot with light bullets, but; after skinning several deer with him he should have been using the 100 grain bullets as his deer were noticably more blood shot that those I used a 308 Win. with 180 grain bullets on. Good cartridge, light recoil, flat shooter, capable of multiple usages with a good veriety of bullet choices.

 

[CB900F]

MCgunner;

Please tell me where you're getting Nosler bullets from for $12.00 per hundred.
I'm sure that there's several of us who wish to know.

900F