The 308 one of my favorite subjects. As a hunter I’ve never had a use for this round, theres too many out there that out perform it. I’d always said I’ll never have a rifle in 308 but that was until the hog invasion on the big ranch. My regular truck gun is a Steyr Pro Hunter in 243 with a Ziess Conquest 3x9. I use it mainly for coyotes (taken 42 so far this year) It’s handloaded with 70 grain Nosler Ballistic tips at about 3600 fps. I ran into a sounder of about 12 hogs on the back side of the ranch and could only get 2 before they made it to the brush, the big boar I had to shoot twice. It was at that point I decided I needed a bigger caliber but mainly more fire power. My Panther Arm LR-308 with the 24 inch bull barrel arrived about a month later. Mounted another Zeiss Conquest 3x9 and took it to the range to sight it in. Is it heavy “damn right” but I’ve never shoot a more accurate semi-auto. My first day out with it I ran into a sounder of 8 hogs, only one made it’s escape. Since then I’ve take another 17 and the population seems to have dwindled down for now, but they will return. The 308 is still not my favorite round but it seemed to be the ideal round for my needs at the time. I’ll still use my 257 and 300 Weatherby’s for deer and elk but the 308 is my designated hog caliber.
Oh! and the only modification I’ve made to this rifle was to replace the stock trigger with a Timney competition trigger. The stock LR trigger leaves much to be desired.