OK Ballistics - Thats D.O.P.E. - Oklahoma Gun Forum
This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!
.308 vs .270 for deer hunting
- Thread starter Kwaynem
- Start date
Use 308win when I hunt in the short timber (most under 100yrd shots, sit fence line out to approx 300yrds, farther if I climb higher in tree).
when freezers full enough for a bit of eating, I'll carry some other caliber I got.
If hunt open country I'll use 7rm or 300wm.
If I stay in warm house drinking coffee & listening to stereo, since deer pass/hang around daily within 40yrds of front & back porches, sometimes will come right up to porches while we're on it, I use whatever pistol I pick up.
If on atv, tractor or vehicle, It's whichever "truck" gun I got that day.
when freezers full enough for a bit of eating, I'll carry some other caliber I got.
If hunt open country I'll use 7rm or 300wm.
If I stay in warm house drinking coffee & listening to stereo, since deer pass/hang around daily within 40yrds of front & back porches, sometimes will come right up to porches while we're on it, I use whatever pistol I pick up.
If on atv, tractor or vehicle, It's whichever "truck" gun I got that day.
I know both will kill deer I haven’t personally killed one with a .308 but have seen other people kill with it. I have always used 270,243,6.5 creedmoor, occasionally other calibers. I just didn’t know about things like killing power. Every deer I have ever shot with 243 or 270 either dropped or only went about 20 yards didn’t know about the 308
Berger VLD Hunter's or Elite Hunter's pushed at a decent speed placed high shoulder has been money since they've been in my rifles. I tend to push bullets a little harder so that could be a plus.
Biggest boddied buck I've ever killed was with a 168 FGMM high shoulder from about 130 and it folded like a shitty tent. That was out of an M1A too. I've had a couple of target bullets kill like that. Not 100% convinced its all bullet when you hit the right spot.
Prior to Bergers I loaded Hornady SST's 165 I think. Never lost one, but they didn't kill as fast as the Bergers did/do.
Probably the lack of bullet support for target bullets. 5 bullets in .27 Caliber from Berger and all hunting bullets
Vs a metric shit ton in .30 Cal
That's just from Berger. I didn't check the other major ones. I also wonder if the lack of support for factory target rifles in .27 Caliber play into it. I've never seen one? But really never looked.
Vs a metric shit ton in .30 Cal
That's just from Berger. I didn't check the other major ones. I also wonder if the lack of support for factory target rifles in .27 Caliber play into it. I've never seen one? But really never looked.
I was looking to rebarrel my 270 with a different twist rate and deeper through. I started looking into the 270WSM and 6.8 western. I landed on the 6.8 western because I can shoot the heavier longer bullets. Just need to land on a rifle manufacture before I buy.
Since getting busted up from head to toe in the 13' wreck, shooting one of my compounds more than a quiver or so I get a bit of pain in my broke "not repaired" wrists & neck/spine where nine fractured/broke (now "healed" says the doc) vertibre are.
So in 15' I bought a barnett crossbow, couple dozen bolts & broadheads to bow hunt with. Pretty sure I paid for all before I walked out the store's door, so afaik, I'm still not a criminal.
I took a poll of hundreds of deer, both small White Tales and Mule deer and the results were unanimous, they all preferred being shot with a 308. Now I must admit this survey was conducted after being shot so the ones that ran off were not asked. One very important result of the survey was that, all preferred 308 over 270, but they all preferred the 270 over Dodge, Ford, or Chevy trucks. Another head scratcher was very few could tell much difference between 30-30, 30-06, 270, 308, or belted magnums. Once again this poll only applies to the ones laying there.
Last edited:
Remington green and yellow box core-lokt 150gr. (I think it was)
Decided I wanted to try neck shots last year in hopes of not ruining as much meat.
My shot was in the lower neck she fell and rolled over. Exit side of the neck was pretty much gone with blood everywhere in the dirt. Even if she ran a bit a blind man could follow that trail.
Absolutely love my .270 and I won’t be retiring it, but I’ve never had that kind of results with it.
Was a 70s model Winchester 94 three years ago I got my best buck to date.
Any other rifle I don’t think I could have pulled it off.
He was running across the pasture but with the light weight and easy to swing, open sighted 94 I was able to bust him. Pretty darn proud of that shot, he rolled to a stop.
I know the deer will be just as dead with whichever they were shot with same goes with all the other fucking calibers I was asking which everyone preferred if they preferred one over the other because myself I haven’t ever hunted with a 308 so I wouldn’t know personally how it performed
