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Hunting & Fishing What's the best .308 hunting bullet?

Re: What's the best .308 hunting bullet?

<div class="ubbcode-block"><div class="ubbcode-header">Originally Posted By: RobertB</div><div class="ubbcode-body">Had a 142 SMK (260 I know, not a .308)not do worth a damn on a deer at 125 yds. Do you think it was because I was so close? </div></div>




....shot placement.....my friend
 
Re: What's the best .308 hunting bullet?

My LTR really likes the remington 165gr scirocco rounds, and my dope is very close to FGMM rounds. However they don't expand very much but have great mass retention and penetration so I'm not sure they'd be ideal for lighter skinned antelope or small white tail, probably even overkill on mule deer or at least I'd tend to lean to something with more expansion. In my testing they were the only factory round that my LTR shot almost as well as FGMM.

Nosler and federal accubonds shot really well in my 06' but not so much in the .308. I also tried a couple boxes of the HMS running the 168gr VLD and they didn't shoot very well. Tried some of the corbon DPX 168gr again not great accuracy. Keeping in mind that even the "bad" ones of these groups were around 1" at 100, but the scirocco's were typically .5-3/4" groups and seemed more consistent with less flyers.
 
Re: What's the best .308 hunting bullet?

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Recently MrExtreme and i shot some different bullets in Ballistic Gel,beeing a true beliver of Ballistic Tip for many years we tryed out some Bergers and A-Max in 243 and 308.

The A-Max in both calibers really impressed me!
The 155grain in 308 shot at 100meters:
Penetration were 50cm.
Expanded bullet was 19mm or 2,5 times bullet diameter.
Residue weight or recovered weight(not quite shure witch word is right)110,2grains or 71%

This fall A-Max will be chambered in my two Lr rifles for shure
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Re: What's the best .308 hunting bullet?

Killed a mess of deer and a kudu, a zebra and a few impala with Barnes X bullets. In a 308, I shoot 165-168 grain bullets over 43.5 grains of varget. Not the fastest, but very accurate in my 308s.

Might step down to the 130 TTSX for deer