I read the Boston Tea Party Gun Bible book and he is in love with 308. You can reach out and touch someone from 500 to 800 meters with a Savage. They are supposed to have great accuracy and triggers. BTP book is intense but in it he describes a time when the SHTF. If the people coming your way are using 5.56 and 5.45, you will have a tactical advantage with 308 aka 7.62. Snipers shots per kill hover at 1.5 per kill in almost all conflicts. The number of rounds fired per kills with modern assault weaponer continues to climb. No wonder the advice is to stock pile ammo.
Is .308 the same at 7.62 X 51?
If someone is 1/4 to 1/2 mile away you should be able to slip away without ever shooting. I have "slipped away" from people after they have almost stepped on me.I guess this is prob the right logic. Use the .308 to pin the approaching bad guys down. That will give time for me and the couple of family members to try and slip away in another direction.
I bought a .308 Savage 111 last year.....
.....I am wanting a new deer rifle that I would actually use.
Assuming the barrel is already scoped and zeroed, does it hold zero when reassembled?
I'd keep it. Would be easy to change out a barrell for deer season as fireball168 has said. The savage rifles are a good platform and easy to work on, doesn't take a full gunsmith to do work to it like the 700. Plus as said above "30 cal turning cover into concealment since..." I've got 3 bolt guns in a .30 cal of some sort. They are very useful. Sure maybe not legal for deer but that's what my muzzleloader is for. Frankly I"m wanting to buy another bolt .30 cal. This time in a savage in 30-06. Would give me more room to do mods to in the way of swapping calibers, and its a caliber I've already got.