Thread: .308 ammunition advice

Originally Posted by Williamfga

Fair enough, rifle has been pillar bedded and free floated, shortened / Crowned and checked over by a very trusted gunsmith. The sako gamehead 150g groups around 1moa, Lab radar averaging 2598fps. the other 3 Hornady ammo was anything up to 6" groups. (150g american white tail, 150g SSt, 178g ELDX) happy with having 1moa accuracy on this particular rifle but would like some slightly higher BC projectiles. Hope that helps.

Greetings again,
The Sako ammo shooting around MOA suggests that the rifle is capable of decent accuracy and does better with the blunter projectiles which have more bearing surface. I did a load series in my .308 recently using 125,150 and 165 grain projectiles and various powders. The best accuracy was with the 165 or heaviest projectile so this may be worth trying. The problem with factory ammo is that you get what you are given. Some of it is good or even very good but batches may differ. You are running at least two rifles so you may want to consider handloading, especially in the longer term. If you could buddy up with a current handloader this could help with set up cost.
Regards Grandpamac.