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10 Most Versatile Long-Range Hunting Cartridges - Guns in the News
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While it's fun to contemplate all these different ways of putting a slug downrange, if the balloon goes up, American munitions manufacturers are not going to be producing them. Leaving you with an expensive club. They're going to tool for military ammo. If you don't have a fire stick that can shoot those calibers, you need to rethink what you have hanging in the gun rack. Again just my opinion.
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10 Most Versatile Long-Range Hunting Cartridges - Guns in the News
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I liked the article. Gunpowder is just the easiest available to use.
However with all the stuff that mixes and goes boom there are lots of alternatives for powder if you reload. I know a half dozen guys that haven't bought gunpowder for 50+ years.
A little research could do you well.
However with all the stuff that mixes and goes boom there are lots of alternatives for powder if you reload. I know a half dozen guys that haven't bought gunpowder for 50+ years.
A little research could do you well.
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Black powder is not so difficult, just time consuming. If I were to try to formulate some form of smokeless powder that would be on a par with say IMR4895... I'm afraid I would fall woefully short and probably destroy my internal components. If I COULD actually pull it off, I'm sure that accuracy (and probably consistancy) would come into play in a major way.
Black powder is not so difficult, just time consuming. If I were to try to formulate some form of smokeless powder that would be on a par with say IMR4895... I'm afraid I would fall woefully short and probably destroy my internal components. If I COULD actually pull it off, I'm sure that accuracy (and probably consistancy) would come into play in a major way.
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SFC Ralph E Kelley
SSG William Jones - The real secret to new powder testing to use less tight tolerances in the than the chamber by taking a sliver off the front cartridge, reducing the length a tad. That way any overpressure is dissipated. once you find the best mix then you can return to the original cartridge size.
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SSG William Jones
SFC Ralph E Kelley
Not a problem for me. I am well stocked with all components. (I've learned a bit about dealing with this kind of stuff in 75 years. Brief example in photo.)
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Not a problem for me. I am well stocked with all components. (I've learned a bit about dealing with this kind of stuff in 75 years. Brief example in photo.)
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More muscle and range than I need. The 30-06 puts meat on the table reliably. I haven't purchased a commercial box in over 40 years. I even make up some cast gas checked rounds for coyotes with Unique. Heck, I make up cast stuff for the 45-70 to pop close deer. For small stuff at 400+ yards, my 22-250 Browning B-78 allows hold on target while the bullet is in flight. I learned long ago that successful shots across ravines or 400 yards away means that much more hiking and packing distance, so I became much more shrewd about my approach. I did shoot a large mulie on a hill once. It then rolled down to land 20 feet from the tailgate. If you do go for the article's rounds, reloading will be the way to go. Re: .308/7.62, love my rifles in it. My friend has an old Winchester lever in 308. He's downed more deer, elk, and moose with it over his hunting years than can be counted.
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The best choice for a long ranger general purpose, always the chance of laying your hands on it ammo is the 7.62 NATO or the .308. While there are differences in Military 7.62 NATO and civilian .308 Winchester, mainly the thickness of the brass and the sensitivity of the primers, but the round is available as surplus, commercial and inexpensive, and is still in use by the US military and most LEO agencies.
Purchase of a "Designer" or "Wildcat" caliber rifle, unless you purchase a pallet of ammo with it, will give you as SGT Whitmire stated, a very expensive club.
Best choices in my humble opinion are the Remington 700 Police, the Springfield M1A, and a good HK91 clone.
Purchase of a "Designer" or "Wildcat" caliber rifle, unless you purchase a pallet of ammo with it, will give you as SGT Whitmire stated, a very expensive club.
Best choices in my humble opinion are the Remington 700 Police, the Springfield M1A, and a good HK91 clone.
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