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Originally Posted by G5_Todd
i noticed today that bushmaster makes a .308 or 7.62 version.....
might have to be a future purchase
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You'll find more than one .308 discussion in these boards if you search ... I'll cut to the chase and say your best bet would be to go with a Springfield Armory M1A or an FN-FAL (DS Arms or Arizona Response Systems built would be your best bets).
A bushy .308 isn't gonna be much different than the Armalite AR-10, I suppose, but there are many reasons why I'd be wary of getting one. First of all, the BM .308 is designed to accept unaltered FAL metric magazines. In doing so they had to eliminate the 6 o'clock locking lug on the bolt to utilize the mag and its feed angle, which was designed for a tipping bolt rifle (FAL). This significantly weakening the lock-up and was, not coincidentally, a primary reason why DPMS and Armalite decided against the FAL magazine for their AR-10 design. The BM .308 has been reported to have bolt failures and BM has now discontinued the .308 rifle models. Why not just get the rifle for which the FAL magazines were made?
The FAL and the M1A are battle-proven .308s and you'd never go wrong with either rifle IMO. Some would call the FN-FAL the best battle-rifle in the world (I include my own, admittedly, biased opinion as a proud owner of an 18" DSA Belgian Congo FAL).
Here's a photo of my own FAL posted for about the 20th time (apologies to the regulars who've seen this photo before - Can I help it if I love my rifle?):
