The 308 Winchester. The most versatile cartridge? An Australian professional shooters perspective. 

Thanks for the positive feedback. 👌

Just because whoever this is has a cluing service doesn't make them a guns - ammo and ballistic expert and in fact by this own person's words in the video they have zero idea or experiences with ammunition other than buying commercial ammunition and reading the information on the boxes.

@@lurebenson7722 you actually couldn’t be more wrong if you tried mate. This video is a general commentary video on the 308. Not a detailed ballistic or reloading discussion. Feel free to take your trolling elsewhere.

@@FVR375 What you don't like being call out on your nonsense by an American professional Alaskan hunting guide and custom rifle builder of standard and wildcat cartridges or maybe because you believe you think you know more than I do then tell me how do I build the AR 10s for the 375-300 WSM and all of the WSM cartridges or how do I make the 6mm-284 loaded cartridges for another AR 10 and what powders do I use or how do I make the 8 mm - 378 Wby magnum cartridges and what powders are best for this large powder capacity 8 mm magnum wildcat chambered in my Brevex Mauser ? If you don't like to be called out for talking complete nonsense by people who know about firearms - ammo - reloading and building specialized rifles, then don't go posting videos full of nonsense BS! The problem with BS talking nonsense fools like you is young kids watch these videos then think some lying garbage in videos is the honest truth which it's not.

​@@FVR375hey, I was curious, as an American, who can get an AR10 in Australia and what is involved in getting one (legally, of course)

Thanks for the kind words

Thanks for the feedback. He won’t go wrong with the options you have provided him there 👍👍🐗🐗

Those are paper target bullets, so I hope you aren't shooting deer with them

@@lurebenson7722 SSTs are neither OTM or 'match hollow points'. You must not be familiar with the SST type. 123g SSTs in 6.5 Grendel are great for American feral pigs ~100kg give or take and to 200m. In .308 they'll often pass through a deer at such ranges. (150g #30302) BTDT Try to get out there more, mate.

Good stuff. I have used a few of the match projectiles over the years but not the match kings specifically ( A-max were always good). Thanks for the comment.

Hey thanks !

All very workable combinations!!!

Thanks. Will do some content along those lines shortly.

Thanks. Certainly harder to find suitable ammunition at a good price presently!

Thanks for the kind words. Still working through the process of putting up decent quality content and appreciate the feedback.

Thanks! Greetings!

A good number of the recent new cartridges have filled gaps where the .308 starts to show itself as more of a “Jack of all trades, master of none”. The new 6.5s in particular have been very useful for me in open country longer range shooting. The 308 is capable in this regard but downrange performance has been improved with faster twist barrels and more ballistically efficient bullets. Sure there’s been a few releases like the 6.8s which haven’t had much uptake but a good number of the new releases are very definitely here to stay.

@@English_Speaking_Fox agreed. The 6.8 release unfortunately ran with that other big release: COVID. Maybe its uptake may have been greater had its release not coincided with the scam-demic. It may enjoy a second coming in times to come. There is always a danger that the “gap filling” cartridges will turn into a sea of “in-betweeners” whose performance from one to another becomes less apparent.

​@English_Speaking_Fox you should check out Banana Ballistics test between the 308 and the 6.5. You might be surprised which one won. Hint, it wasn't the 6.5. Overall, the 6.5 appears to lack significantly in several areas. Very eye opening honestly. The old 308 blew it away, literally in multiple areas on test, including armor penitration. The 6.5 appears to come apart to quickly on impact, even with solid copper rounds.

@@Rogue-7.62 the old tried and true stuff stays for a reason. Fads and trends come and go…

​@@Rogue-7.626.5 creed is more long range round than 308, they're going to have their respective niches. It's gaining popularity steadily in US

Good feedback. Can do that.

100% agree with your assessment on shooting for occupational reasons. And thanks for the kind words.

For the talking. Iphone 15 pro. For the shooting- gopro and the thermal unit (all pulsar).

The 65 is a better designed cartridge overall than the 308. Very practical. Inside typical ranges its hard to pick a significant difference between the two. Once past 300m the 65 is a great choice.

Thanks. I have used a few different variations of the copper monos over the years although they don’t see much use on high volume work as the coat per round is high. My experience has shown that they are effective but tend to kill via bleeding rather than shock. Some pretty snappy designs out there now though.

Brass catchers are ok on low volume aerial shooting jobs but they are a pain in the backside on high volume work and can make clearing rifles/ fixing stoppages difficult and detract from the main aim of feral animal control. They also catch wind / rotorwash and can detract from accurate shooting. Clients are paying for efficiency and hence I don’t use them often.

Unfortunately it is a licensing issue. Semi autos are category D in Australia and only available to selected businesses and primary producers. Quite a difficult licence to get.

Certainly. Buying a decent mike this week.

Their remains are assimilated back into the ecosystem they damaged.

Carcasses aren’t recovered. They break down fully in 5-6 days given the heat in Northern Australia and other scavengers such as birds of prey. They have no value from a recovery perspective and it is logistically unworkable given the remote areas where this control is conducted. Financially it is worthwhile but there is not enough of this work out there to conduct only aerial work as a contractor.

Got me the first time.

I'm considering crowd funding a lapel mic for this lad 🙉

Voice didn't come through well on my computer. Low volume and too much room reverb. That said, not the only time I had to use CC to keep up with someone, but IIRC a first with FVR375.

@@greatdane3343 Most editing software will have some way to normalise volume.

Wedgetail Industries WT25

There is basically no laws governing what you must use. What you can own, sure, but once you own it you can use whatever it is on whatever you want other than some laws I can think of with Deer and what commonsense should dictate.

I have reloaded 1000s of 308 rounds over the years- the video wasn’t about reloading- would’ve been hours long instead of 30 mins. AR2208 is king over my way and can achieve well over 2900 fps with a 150 gr pill and no pressure issues out of a 22 inch barrel. As it currently stands, I dont reload 308 much as most of the time it is used in semi autos and given the volume its not worth doing.

Yeah and you gave amazing examples using only 165 bullet weight and 42 grains, not exactly breaking the laws of physics are you? He was talking about going over 180 grain which unless you're going subsonic is pretty good advice. Which powder do you use when you want 2800fps out of an AR 308 with a 200grain bullet?

@@brettcleveland6335 I have only shot 220 grain Searra brand of Bullets and just 10 of them from the AR 10 with a 19-inch barrel and I never checked the velocity with the chronograph I own. These bullets came to me from a fishing client of my guide services when another client we all new rode his Harly into a guard rail killing him then his widow gave all of his reloading things away and I got some or it. I don't even shoot over 180 grain bullets in one of two Weatherby 300s I own. Just 2 days ago I got back the Weatherby V-5 from Pac Nor barrels with a new 27 inch SS super match barrel in 1-10 Polygonal rifling back to chambered in 300 Wby mag I will shoot today 175 grain PPU bullets with 91 grains of MagPro for powder that should just reach the 3450 FPS mark. I shoot max bullet weights of 165 that is on the far end of bullet weight for 308. I never would hunt with a 308 and in my family the worst rifle for causing crippled deer and Elk was grandfathers 308 that I now own and did a barreling and chambering to 6mm-284 Win. The AR 10 I own was put together for recitational shooting fun so nothing else. I don't have any reason here in the US to own a suppressor then be listed on Bidens commie ATF and FBI list of class 3 weapons for anytime they want to come to my place to snoop around. I value my 2nd Amendment rights and my privacy from governments communist overreach.

@@brettcleveland6335 Whatever you may think of powder charges for the 308 I've never found a powder yet that is a compressed load so that BS all over the internet or here the powder charge and bullet can reduce powered capacity is false. The powders used for the 308 must be a fast to mid range burn rate to get a decent bullet speeds. If putting a powder into a 308 like LRT or IMR 7828 or MagPro all that will do is make a 308 with a full case of powder to a 30-30 range because these powders are slow burn for large magnums.

For the aerial work- a Wedgetail Industries WT25 semi 308. I have a number of different 308s for ground work

Yep. Seems to be an issue. Grabbing a new microphone this week.

@@FVR375 Nah, thats just it, your mic actuially caught its dynamics, most don't. Just need to use a limiter in your editing side. It was only in the thermal video, rest were fine.

I’ve found the 130 Speer or 125 tnt drops all fallow on the spot. 48 gn 2206 H

Cat D Licence as a professional shooter. Only available for business use. 👍

I've noticed a lot of professional hunters in Australia are now packing AR-10s & AR-15s.

@@donwyoming1936 Then getting the permit to own them must not be all that hard to get. Maybe I need to look into how to reach that kind of guide to sell them my AR 10 uppers in all of the WSM magnums and I hunt with my AR 10 I did in 375WSM a reloader cartridge that is the same as a 375 H&H magnum

@@donwyoming1936Australian licensing is done by State. But generally semi auto rifles are considered Category D. It is a long and administratively heavy process to get a cat D licence with most semis held in customs bond which means you need a state level permit plus an attorney generals permit to buy one. On top of the actual licence.

​​@@lurebenson7722You have to be conducting an actual business that meets the very narrow requirements including having confirmed pest control clients, a business plan, a registered business and a risk management plan. Then there is the additional requirements once you have got a licence. Also losing that licence is very easy to do. Additionally, the Category D weapons cannot be used recreationally. They are for business use only.