I agree with everything you say, it is obvious you spent time on the range. You are however mixing High Power Service rifle, High Power Match Rifle and PALMA competations. Also this happened over the course of several decades when they were learning much about how to make rifles shoot well, not to mention the development of better bullets and shooters for that matter. The transition from 06 to 308 was happening and everyone was following the military, it is where the research was. This guy is looking for a hunting rifle. IMHO what happens at 600 to 1000 yards has nothing to do with hunting. Back in the day the Navy built up a bunch of 7.62 NATO M1s (the reason 308 M1s are legal in Service rifle), they were better than rack NM guns but they was a lot of care spent putting them together. Still they couldn't beat the M14s. Some of this was due to the reload method and some to how the gas cylinders and wood hang on the gun. The Army also but great pains into building those M14s right, the ammo also. In a hunting rifle I doubt anyone would ever know notice the difference in power or accuracy between the 308 and 30-06. Now days using a 308/M14/M1A in service rifle competation is a good way to make sure you will not win. I earned a High Power Master class with a Bushmaster clone AR 15. I could not have done it with a M1A. Still David Tubb and the Tompkins Gallager klan (wish I could shoot like a girl) could beat me if they were throwing rocks . I know nothing of PALMA, but when I was shooting competatively the 30 magnums ruled the 1000 yard iron site games. My favorite factoid about about Service Rifle competation, after they adopted the 03 they had to ban the 30-40 Krag because the new rifle was not competative with it. The reason I hunt with a 06 is because that is what I started with and have had no reason to change. Also, ammunation is avaliable everywhere they hunt animals. Not so I think for the guys with the short mags/ultra mags.
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