Drum roll please!

OOpossum - you gave up, but you fought the good fight!

IMHO Each has it's pro's & con's and depending on the circumstances one may be a better choice over the other.....

For what it's worth for years I carried an .06 AND .308 to the Rockies on hunting trips. I've still got one of each and shot just about everything but bear with both of them at ranges out to 300+. Even though the .06 can be loaded up with heavier bullets and push a bit faster, I can't really see the difference is enough for me to worry about.

Maybe it's degrees of dead!

Calibers less than .30 = Dead
.30 Cal = Deader
Calibers over .30 = Deadest

Magnums = Dead +P

(...for grins - 22.250 = Deader-n-h&!! )

I predict that someone is going to develop another cartridge in __?___ (pick your caliber), the gun magazines are gonna write it up as the best thing since "shoestring potatoes" and everyone ought to have it. Oh - Sorry! They do that all the time now don't they?

Oh well, like I always say - "Man can't have too many guns"

If I would have been working instead of reading this thread I would have earned enough to just buy one of each.

I can't believe you guys debated this for so many pages. Silly......plain silly!

My slower 30 cal is better than your faster 30 cal!

I'm still saying it is not the cartridge, it is the rifle



At 300 yds FNAR rings 8" gong like church bells.

My super fast 30 cals beats the slow 30 cal by a long stretch

Well lets see....from fastest and flattest to slowest and rainbow ish

300RUM
300Roy
300 WM
300WSM
300SAUM
30-06
308

Seems pretty silly to argue back and forth about which one of the two slowest 30 cals offered in bolt action rifles is better!

My 30 wcf (.308) is better than either one, right?

Its been kickin A$$ longer than either one of those listed.

Any of those over 30-06 produces a diminishing return, any under the 30-06 is a glorified 30-30.

If you have a 30 wcf and an 06, you have all the bases covered and more money left for beer.

Is the 7mmm Rem Mag. superior than the .30-06?

Its almost the same arguemnt all over again.

Yep.

Somebody pass the salt.....

Aw geez...

Not even close. Load a 30-06 to 65k psi and it blows 308 into the dust.

Let's have a 308 vs 30-06 challenge. 6" disk at 300 yds. 10 shots. For every hit you get a zero. For a miss you get a +5 seconds.

Start the shot timer. On the beep shoot 10 shots. Add raw time to number of miss x 5.

At the end of the challenge, I think you will get it.

Hmmmm seems like I may have some advantage with a 20 round magazine. Not sure how ya 30-06 guys gonna work that out LOL

Oh prone will be fine. If you have a bipod use it. Stock butt bag will be fine also.

If only 300 I'd take a 223 over those two and win.

15 more pages here we come. 7mm vs 308 begin

Bring your .30-06 out to match up against my 7 Rem Mag and I'll run you for pinks.

The 7 Rem Mag does not belong in this argument. It just isn't fair to the other two.

Don't run this man for pinks on that short range.

Who needs to shoot at anything 10 times!

you do to win the challenge We are looking at a place the 308 leaves the 30-06 in the dirt. Exactly why the 308 was designed.

Don't be so sure of that .... some of us have it worked out ...
and it's a nice 8 pound rifle.

Tell you what though ... let's make the challenge more interesting. All shots must penetrate the steel target.

You would be disapointed shooting against some of CMP John C Garand competitors. 2moa is not that impressive.

308 for me! when I can find ammo.....

You left out the 30-378 & the 308 Warbird