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<blockquote data-quote="HoLeChit" data-source="post: 3731598" data-attributes="member: 35036"><p>While I would love to go on a big ol safari one of these days, it’s not in my immediate future. I have all the intermediate and short distance rifles I need, and I’m pretty confident that I could take something humanely at 300+ yards with my 308. I’m primarily looking for better ballistics and overall performance. ESP when looking at hunting sheep, elk, and other large “big” North American game. I am strongly favoring the 300WM and feel it will do just fine. I’ve just come across the 6.8 western and it seems appealing. Slightly less recoil than 300WM, bucks the wind better, And flatter trajectory, at the cost of a very small amount of kinetic energy. People are already saying that the round is taking down game at 500, but still provides expansion at 100 yards or less. I feel the accuracy potential is phenomenal as well, between the High BC bullets and the supposed .0001 of freebore spacing that Winchester is saying their rifles in 6.8 western have.</p><p></p><p>In terms of smaller cartridges it seems to hold its own pretty well too, Winchester says it’s bringing 16 percent more energy than the 6.5 PRC at 500 yards and 67 percent more energy than the 6.5 Creedmoor.</p><p></p><p>I’m far from decided, but I’m just bouncing ideas off my own brain and the collective brain here.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="HoLeChit, post: 3731598, member: 35036"] While I would love to go on a big ol safari one of these days, it’s not in my immediate future. I have all the intermediate and short distance rifles I need, and I’m pretty confident that I could take something humanely at 300+ yards with my 308. I’m primarily looking for better ballistics and overall performance. ESP when looking at hunting sheep, elk, and other large “big” North American game. I am strongly favoring the 300WM and feel it will do just fine. I’ve just come across the 6.8 western and it seems appealing. Slightly less recoil than 300WM, bucks the wind better, And flatter trajectory, at the cost of a very small amount of kinetic energy. People are already saying that the round is taking down game at 500, but still provides expansion at 100 yards or less. I feel the accuracy potential is phenomenal as well, between the High BC bullets and the supposed .0001 of freebore spacing that Winchester is saying their rifles in 6.8 western have. In terms of smaller cartridges it seems to hold its own pretty well too, Winchester says it’s bringing 16 percent more energy than the 6.5 PRC at 500 yards and 67 percent more energy than the 6.5 Creedmoor. I’m far from decided, but I’m just bouncing ideas off my own brain and the collective brain here. [/QUOTE]
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