There are a couple of forums who continually beat up on the "dean" person who generally is out and about promoting the 408Cheyenne Tactical round.
Evidently there hasn't been a whole lot of outside testing done of the round by interested parties who want to try the thing first before they invest in the thing. It seems like it always winds up coming down to somebody linked with the round saying "buy my rifle, my balistics software, and blah blah blah" then go do your testing otherwise believe what we are telling you. Atleast that's where I left off in all of this, if somebody can point me to 3rd party evaluations of the 408CheyTac round I'd be much appreciative.
Some have suggested a bit of misrepresentation regarding the 408CheyTac round.
Hell if I know the real scoop, it's just interesting to see it come and go from time to time. I'm sure that the round has some real benefits and probably performs very well, but then who's to say that a 338Lapua with precision turned VLD copper solids wouldn't perform similarly?
Some of those Lost River Balistics copper solids are crazy on balistic coeffecient numbers, put those into just about any cartridge that can drive them fast enough and some rediculous retained velocity at range should be the result. Not neccesarily a new idea isolated to Lost River Balistics though, nor the 408CheyTac.
I don't know, for a non-50 long range rifle. For a big boomer 30cal. I'd go with something like a 30-378 or a 300RUM, can always do fun stuff like loading old M2 30-06 AP pulls into them
For larger more authoratative "thump" I would say the 338Lapua. For long range killin of little furry vermin type critters, something like a 22-250 using HEAVY bullets or maybe even a 22/243 Cheetah using 80-90grn bullets in an appropriate twist rate.