I shoot 150 grain in my .308

Congratulations on your .308.  You are going to see a marked improvement in performance.  I use 150gr for deer in my .308.  Hornady is good ammo also.

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150 gr. here also

Ok, all setup and ready to roll.  Finally got My scope bases in the mail. My setup is savage model 11 .308 with burris rings and bases with a Nikon "buckmaster" 3-9x40 with there "BDC" reticle. Now... Just need to go sight it and and head out to field. The ammo I picked up is Hornaday 150gr. SST...

   Thank You guys on Your advice..

Matt,

The .308 is an excellent whitetail round, and you should see deer run off a lot less versus that .243.

I shoot a .308 as well (as does my eldest son), but for some reason it doesn't like 150 grain bullets very well.  Different rifles seem to like different bullet weights, so I'd recommend going with the weight/bullet design your rifle groups with best.  Try several types of ammunition as time and budget allow.  My particular rifle can shoot a 165 grain or a 168 grain equally well (right at 1" at 100 yards), depending on the manufacturer.  The difference in trajectory and performance is minimal versus a 150 grain but the increase in accuracy is worth it.

I'd also recommend that you break in your barrel.  There are a number of different methods to do this, so look around on the web for the one you like best.  Most of them generally go something like this: shoot a round, clean your barrel.  Shoot 2 more rounds and do it again, then shoot 3 more, etc, etc.

Ditto what David H said.  Your deer will tend to "stay shot" better with the .308 than the .243.  He is also correct in trying various grain weights of bullets to see which ones work best in your rifle. 

With my Remington PSS .308 I shoot deer with 150gr (custom loaded) but I shoot targets with 175gr Match Ammo.  Try different ammo and see what type of food your rifle likes best...and feed her regularly

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243 flat out kills deer quite dead.. I don't know how much deader they can get!

that said, I like the 308 a lot

if you don't reload, pick up a few boxes of various ammo and see what shoots best

any 150 or 165g softpoint will work fine for deer

see if you can find the Federal blue box stuff, whatever you find your gun shoots well with pick up as much of it as you can afford to and save the brass

thats  what  I bought  my  son was a 308. He  loves it and  yes the  deer run alot  less.