r/canadaguns • u/Prefon10 • 2d ago

Gun and gear reviews Favourite Caliber for Whitetail GO! ⬇️

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Personally, I shoot my 30-06 with my Barnes Triple Shock TSX reloads.

What do you guys shoot?

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u/Fickle_Ice_7584 1d ago

Hoping to take my first deer with my Hornady ELDX 178gr loads for 308. Still tinkering to get them right, but with just rough trim length consistency they performed pretty well out to 330 yards. So I'm now tryna crank the autism up and use very consistent trim/seating depths and see just how accurate I can be.

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u/Murray3-Dvideos 1d ago

Im jealous your .308 likes the stuff. I bought 200 bullets thinking my Bergara would shoot it, instead I got SKS sized groups. Its a real shame cus they seemed like a decent cost effective target / big game option. Now im banking on 175 SMK X bullets.

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u/Fickle_Ice_7584 1d ago

Yeah I heard bout them not liking the ELDXs, I bought 100 bullets, then immediately saw people talking bout how awful they run in their bergara HMRs in 308. Luckily they run fine in my gun.

Though I will say I done up about 4 different charge loads for it and mine shot best with 41.3gr of Varget, buddy of mine told me to load 41.0gr of varget and the group's weren't anything to write home about. That extra .3 made a big difference. So you may have to just tinker some more if you reload. If you're just buying em by the box then I guess you may be SOL

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u/Murray3-Dvideos 1d ago

I did around 80rnds worth of ladder tests. Couldn't get it to pattern under 1moa consistently. People suggested trying something beside Varget but I want my loads to centered around Varget since its an affordable, readily available and super temp stable powder. So now im experimenting with SMKs, different brass and different primers.

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u/Fickle_Ice_7584 1d ago

That group I shot was with mix matched brass, not uniform trim length ( if it was under max trim length I didn't touch it ) and non uniform seating depths haha so if they shoot like shit now that Im trying to be as consistent as possible it'd be kinda funny.