Henry Long Ranger .308 experience?

[Sunday Creek]

I had to get the three bundles of soaking newsprint out of the water tank -- they'd been in there almost a week and I have stock coming home Tuesday -- so I stacked them up and shot into them. Surprisingly, the least penetration came from the Nosler E-Tip at 14 1/2", followed by a 150 Accubond at 15", a 165 AB at 15 1/2", a 150 Nosler Partition at 18", and the winner was... a 152-grain Lehigh Defense at 20". I haven't gotten around to weighing the recovered bullets yet, but they all retained weight very well.

[JEBar]

no surprise at the penetration of the partition .... have you ever tested any 180 gr'ers

[Sunday Creek]

I almost tested some 180 NPs today, but didn't have time. Distance was only 50 yards and I didn't take time to set up my chronograph, but velocity would have been fairly similar on all. I just shot three more times because I had an extra 14" of newsprint. The Lehigh Defense blew right through it and the bale of hay I had behind it. A 135-grain DRT and a 150-grain ACCUBOND both went through the newsprint but I don't think they exited the hay bale.

[JEBar]

I can't help but go back to my grandfather's philosophy on bullets .... he used to tell me that when a bullet goes through an animal, all of the energy it expends after leaving the animal is wasted .... he wanted a bullet designed to mushroom so that would expend all of its energy as it penetrated deep into the vitals .... that's the reason for bear, deer, and boar hunting he stuck with his Model 94 30-30 and didn't switch to a 30-06 .... the Nosler's I've dug out of elk, bear, boar, and deer did just that .... later on, while staying with 30 caliber, I caught the bug and jumped all the way up to 300 WBY Mag .... I never found any of the bullets from it that blew right through the deer I took with it .... every time I looked at the exit hole in one of them, I couldn't help but thank back knowing just what my grandfather would have said ..

[ESquared]

Seems like your grandfather was spot on, at least in my mind. Maybe we've all been overcome by the "Tim-The-Toolman-Taylor" philosophy of "more power," when in reality, less power might do just fine.

But then again, I'm new here...