Remington 700 ~ .308 or 30-06?

[winxp_man]

+ another vote for the .308 Win.

[an actual gun]

.308 is cheaper and more available. It's got less recoil but doesn't sacrifice enough power/speed to not be a viable deer cartridge. It's in my top 5 of bread and butter cartridges. You'll always be able to find and afford it and you can do a lot with it. I like some of the flatter shooting rounds especially if you're going to do is hunt with it. But if you're pretty much never going to hunt, and just want a bolt gun for shooting paper, I see almost no reason to ever step outside of .223 and .308. .223 if you want something that's REALLY cheap, and .308 if you need a bit of kick for it to be interesting but don't want to pay an arm and a leg.

I mean to be fair, the .30-06 is still pretty standard stuff but it's just that the .308 will always be cheaper. I'd steer clear of 7mm-08, .270, .300 WSM etc if all you're going to do is shoot paper.

[SPECR]

From cheap surplus to match grade factory, 308 is a great choice for target shoots. You can still hunt fine with it. Besides, you can shoot a whole lot more without hurting your wallet.

[bearstatearmory.com]

I picked the 700 in -06 because I could load it light or heavy depending on what I am trying to do, all the way down to about 120-130 grain and up to 208ish making it a very versatile platform. As far as availability of -06, any Walmart or other half ***** gun store will most likely have -06 due to it's past popularity for hunting and when it was used in the military.

[toby]

30-06 can be found for the same price as 308. If the rifle is going to used for Hunting you don't want to use cheap milsurp ammo anyway.

[elsolo]

Using factory ammo, there is no meaningful difference between .308win and .30-06
They will be pushing the same bullets at damn near the same speed.

Using factory ammo, there is little difference in ammo cost.

Whichever one I found first as a deal on a used rifle.

[Legasat]

You have LOTS more choices of ammo available in .308

[Bowhunter_619]

I keep seeing more people posting that there is more ammo and more choices available in .308, however when I go to any store that sells ammo I see more 150 and 165 grain 30.06 on the shelves than I do anything else vice .22lr and 9mm.