Applications? Hmmmmm Sounds like a fun topic to think about.
I would say the .308 is one of the great all-around light/medium game rounds, perfect for deer, antelope, black bear, wild pig, and so on up to elk-sized critters. It would be a little more than you would need for large varmints like coyotes, but it
is an accurate long-range round.
The .300 Winchester Magnum, when it first came out, was used in Africa for buffalo as well as large antelope. People may still be shooting buffalo with it. In the US, it was and is used for bison, moose, grizzly/brown bears, polar bears, and elk. I would shoot a cape buffalo or gaur with a .300 Win Magnum if that's what I had, but I would probably prefer something bigger. Some shooters use it on deer, too, because it is a superb long-range round, and you can pop a mule deer with it at a very long range, if you are given to that sort of thing.
The .338 Lupua is more gun than you need for elk, but it's a fine gun for moose, the big bears, bison, big wild cattle like cape buffalo and gaur, big African antelope, etc.
That was fun.
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[This message has been edited by jpwright (edited 11-08-2001).]