Thread: New Sako 85 .308 load needed please

Originally Posted by deer243

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The sst is very good at knocking things over, and esp good at longer range so for someone that stated that you havnt used factory ammo for 40 years tells me you way behind the times on what they can acheive and bagging the round for what??? No dis respect of course but bagging a round thats clearly another step up in advancement from not so many years ago you have to question if you up to date on whats happening in the world when it comes to advancement of ammo in general. (still no dis respect to yourself on my part

Mate, I'm not dissing your pet Hornady SP SST factory loads. I've used nearly 200 .308 150gr SST's in handloads for hunting and target work. From what I can see, the SP 150gr load only gets a claimed 80fps faster than my load, which isn't a max load in my rifle. That's not going to make any difference to any deer. I like Hornady bullets but prefer their traditional spire point lead tipped ones for hunting.

Don't presume to know what I know as you'd be quite wrong. I have no need to use factory loads, latest and greatest claims included. I still don't trust them for reasons I won't go into here.

The OP asked about a good load for the .308. I take that to mean a handload (perhaps incorrectly) and you're trying convince everyone on here that they'd be better off buying Hornady SP factory loads. Well good luck with that.