![]() Hunting Elk and smaller game to 300 yards plus wanting a light weight package is tough with these platforms. Different guns for different reasons - think about what your goals and reasons really are. If I need to do that, I'll just take that. I'm not going to hunt mountain goats at 1,100 yards with them. Why go longer on the barrel? It doesn't need to be longer, to accomplish what it needs to accomplish. With that kind of round, expected hunting conditions, and gun weight. I'm two calibers away from completing the ".308 Win Family," and those two will be 16" ARs - a 7mm-08 AR in 16", and a. 243 Win bolt gun sitting at my Gun Pusher's place right now, waiting for me to pick it up. I have a 16" 308 Win AR (and many others), a 16". It's the parent cartridge for 5 others.308 Win. 308 Win has 6 total cartridges built from it (including. Look at the ballistics, see for yourself. If you're hunting 300 yards, you can do that with a 5.56 gun and 70TSX. Don't be scared of the Wilson Combat barrels, because they're 16" barrels - Wilson Combat did that for a reason - Hunting, and ARs. SO, if you're hunting it - why lug around a long barrel? Drop gun weight, drop swing weight, shoot a shorter barrel - that's the fastest way to drop gun weight, and (more importantly) swing weight. Doesn't matter the barrel length, for legal barrel length of 16" and longer. They can do twice that distance.įor a 7mm-08, if you're looking at 300 yards as your max distance, that thing is gonna be a laser. Only reason I would have gone 18" is for distance, and I shoot these to 850 yards and longer.įor a deer-killing machine, you can make a 16" 5.56 gun, if you load up some Barnes 70gr TSX projectiles for it. 260 Rem is a 20" barrel, though - shortest I could find, when I built it, or I would have built it with an 18" barrel. The 7mm-08 will perform very similar, to the. 260 Rem is a joke at 850 yards - same parent cartridge as 7mm-08. 308 Win AR to 850 yards - with ease, and the 7mm-08 is much more "ballistically efficient" than. My M4A1 in Afghanistan was north of 10lbs - for an M4 Carbine.Ī 16" 7mm-08 barrel will do 300 yards with ease, and do 850 yards with ease- it's in the projectile. I generally use 140 grain accubonds/partitions up to around 160 grain a frames or onyx. I just don't want to tote a 10lb gun around on long days - nor do I want the 6lb shoulder hammer at the other end. I do like the velocity - and also I've put a number of rounds down range in 20-22" barrels so I have a level of comfort there. I wouldn't take a shot farther than 300 yards on large game like elk with a 7mm-08 bolt gun. I plan to use it as back up or primary on any game up to and including elk. ![]()
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