Thanks for
www.loaddata.com and the article!!!
Most interesting, and I guess I dont need a book, I do have a 'firearms shopping guide 2006, and in the end it has lot's of pages of charts, with all kinds of cross referrence stuff with guns, and ammo... It's that slightly confusing mass of grids, that put the fear of calibers into me!
Seriously though, I think you guys probably know this already, but the 'find your perfect load', machine on the guns and ammo magazine web site, is simple, user friendly and gives you the 'best average answer'. Still, I usually have played arround (and fantasized 'sound worrying doesnt it')
about handgun loads...
My last serious fantasy gun is the AR-30 semi auto 338lapua!
Anybody know, if those other 338s, fire the same slug as the 338 lapua, but with different casings, or are they also slightly different bullets too?
I know that the 338lapua, is not even so popular with the elk hunters in Finland (even though it was originally designed for this pretty large animal, but as most of the organized hunts take the shooter into a pretty good vantage point, meaning he is relatively close, sometimes very close, then the good old 308cal is always the most preferred rifle, as the 338lapua will go just though fast, even the ones made to 'mushroom', it's just so fast from say 300m... Or so they claim...
But, the Lapua338 has found a new leace on life in safaris, and ofcourse in military sniper rifles, where something heavier than the 308, but not as hugely powerful (or large and heavy to carry, weapon), is wanted and the lapua338 rifles are filling in this spot, the ERMA started the trend I belive, but now there are many...
The AR-30 (also available in Win300), is a semi auto, with a free floating barrel, for things like intimidating large game, or for heavy middle weight sniper work. And all that comes from Armalite, a firm I do not take lightly...
Wouldnt mind their AR-24 semi auto 9mm, all metal hand gun either, infact...
