Ah, I should have known otherwise but I thought you were referring to the Elmer.Bell died in 1954. That's who I was referring to.
You left out the Super Thirty aka .300 H&H Magnum, introduced in 1925.Just a point of trivia...
.270 Winchester, released in 1925
.375 H&H Magnum, released in 1912
and....
.400/.375 Belted Nitro Express -- 1905
I feel we are pretty much at the top of the hill when it comes to wringing out performance from hand held firearms at this point but maybe I'm wrong.
Yes.Phillip m
is the 300H&H belted?
You left out the Super Thirty aka .300 H&H Magnum, introduced in 1925.
The same year in fact that the .300H&H AKA the .30 Super was released.
That's just it, it took a quantum leap in technology (from man powered bows and spears to chemical powered rifles and shotguns) to offer a real improvement in performance of "ballistic weapons". I agree with the previous poster that we've come pretty close to the limits of chemical powered projectile weapons. Its going to take another quantum leap in technology (man-portable rail guns, practical combat lasers or something we don't even see yet) to get really significant improvements over what we can do now.I bet they thought the same thing when they first started using archery equipment too.
Its going to take another quantum leap in technology (man-portable rail guns, practical combat lasers or something we don't even see yet) to get really significant improvements over what we can do now.
Sorry I just don't put that much faith in a bullet.While the 270 has always been a viable elk round, today it and the 30-06 are quickly becoming overkill for even elk size game.
We can now shoot a 100 gr 243 that will hold together, penetrate, and do the damage to game that it used to take a 180 gr 30-06 to do. The small fast vs heavy slow debate is quickly swinging in favor of the small and fast camp.
While the 270 has always been a viable elk round, today it and the 30-06 are quickly becoming overkill for even elk size game.
The "quantum leap" in technology is better bullets that have been introduced recently. We have had the technology to shoot small light bullets at hyper velocity for a while now, but still needed heavy bullets that would hold together and work on larger game.
We can now shoot a 100 gr 243 that will hold together, penetrate, and do the damage to game that it used to take a 180 gr 30-06 to do. The small fast vs heavy slow debate is quickly swinging in favor of the small and fast camp.
While the 270 has always been a viable elk round, today it and the 30-06 are quickly becoming overkill for even elk size game.