Looking to buy a 308 Battle Rifle
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We're not limited to Vietnam era ammo in 5.56/.223 anymore. But still, "DRT" is WAY more dependent on shot placement (CNS) than brass headstamps.
5.56/7.62x39 won't bother you at all at 300yds? Or are you talking about shooting aircraft with small arms?
I have a POF .308 pistol the is very controllable and also a jp .308 that will outshoot most bolt guns love both for different reasons but 18 inch barrel on jp and will shoot whatever distance you set it up for POF with 12.5 inch barrel will do all for short to midrange including home defense
Did I every ever say 300 yards? 1500 feet is 500 yards straight up, right? how often is the person shooting directly below you and timing it perfectly? Also ask people that actually were there and they sat on a spare bullet proof vest. russian 12.5mm were bad news. Ask some person from Iraq or afgan light body armor and 556 was very ineffective for a person way out there. Just do some research! You needed a 308 sniper rifle. It's a dumb argument. I was stationed in Hawaii. They have the big Russian Boars. I bought a 30 cal carbine and they bounce off their forhead. So I bought the 44 mag ruger semi auto and it just took pigs out
You can handload a .22 centerfire to 80 grains. Good medicine on smaller deer here. Just keep your range down. It's way more about shot placement and bullet construction.
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From YOUR state's hunting regs:
Firearms
(Refer to NRS 503.150 and NAC 503.142)
Rifles
A person may hunt big game mammals with a rifle if the rifle uses a centerfire cartridge .22 caliber or larger and no larger than .50 caliber. The centerfire cartridge case length may not be more than three inches.
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Elk at 287 yards with an AR15. https://rokslide.com/forums/threads/223-for-bear-deer-elk-and-moose.130488/page-66#post-2384637
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Wife's been after me to take her to Hawaii, I need to see these up armored pigs they got....
On the deer with 223s, my 223 has an obesity problem and the brass grew 3x to big... but man it flings a 60 grain partition. On the toy sized deer we have, seemed like a better choice then my 375... but my ethics are corrupted so easily by wasting 2$ partitions on 30 lbds of venison.
On the subject of the 308, aside from the Nostalgia reasons a small frame ar 10 is so much power in such a tiny package it would be hard to go any other way. Fully loaded with optic near the weight of a naked m1a. Need to slow my roll on bolt guns long enough to put one in the safe.
On the deer with 223s, my 223 has an obesity problem and the brass grew 3x to big... but man it flings a 60 grain partition. On the toy sized deer we have, seemed like a better choice then my 375... but my ethics are corrupted so easily by wasting 2$ partitions on 30 lbds of venison.
On the subject of the 308, aside from the Nostalgia reasons a small frame ar 10 is so much power in such a tiny package it would be hard to go any other way. Fully loaded with optic near the weight of a naked m1a. Need to slow my roll on bolt guns long enough to put one in the safe.
Correct 500yds, sorry.
The OP wasn't looking for a sniper rifle, or something to shoot at aircraft.
Home defense, and non-armor wearing animals. 5.56 is much better suited to the first, and fully adequate for the second. See above elk if you disagree.
