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Hornady superformance

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Huntingathering-n-ME:
I have never used a 308 while hunting, I have a model 99f savage chambered for one, and bought a ruger m77 compact in 308 for my mother last fall. So I was at cabelas getting some ammo for my 300 sav and thought I'd try this kind of hornAdy, surprised that it threw a 150 grain bullet at 2740 fps, then I picked up a box of 308 in same make, 3000 fps! Assuming this is true, why would you ever need a 30-06, which I always thought to b more powerful, this round in hornady shoots virtually as flat as a 270?!?  I know this probably wouldn't b the case out of the ruger with a 16 in barrel, but out of my 99 with a 22 in barrel it would be an incredibly flat shooting round.

aquaassassin:
I own the ruger compact in .308. Also own a savage 99 in 300 savage I had the same thoughts as you with the speed so I bought the Superformance to offset the 16.5" barrel a bit with the loss in velocity. It just shot OK never really got good groups from it at all. With the barrel so short I think you are really only getting 300 savage power out of that .308 which is still plenty with your avg. factory rounds.

But back to your actual question, the 06 will stabilize heavy bullets a bit better because they can be seated better and still get good powder capacity. Besides that Hornady round no other factory round is going to come real close to 06 power in that 308 anyway. I've gotten the best groups out of my compact with the 150 gr. Winchester BST's and I think they are the next fastest thing. I was worried about them fragmenting at close range but I took a 203 lb. buck dressed with them at 5 yards and the bullet performed flawlessly

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