priv8ter
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While cruising around Hornady's website, trying to figure out why someone would need a .257 Roberts or 7mm-08, or .25-06 Light Magnum load, I found another 'NEW for 2008' article.
Ruger and Hornady are taking the case they use for the Ruger .375, and jimmying it up to make two new COMPACT MAGNUM rounds, in .300 and .338.
I looked at the ballistics, and I guess they look like nice calibers on paper, but, as someone who is okay throwing a 225gr bullet at a paltry 2600fps out of my .35 Whelen, I just don't get it. Sure that .338 RCM gets an extra 150-175FPS, but it's in a gun that weighs over a pound less than my Remington 700. How much range time is someone going to want to put in with that?
http://www.hornady.com/story.php?s=761
And, haven't been hearing that Winchester and Remington are both already starting to thin out their lines of Short Magnum cartridges?
Sigh.
Maybe if I had more disposable income, I would understand all this.
greg
Ruger and Hornady are taking the case they use for the Ruger .375, and jimmying it up to make two new COMPACT MAGNUM rounds, in .300 and .338.
I looked at the ballistics, and I guess they look like nice calibers on paper, but, as someone who is okay throwing a 225gr bullet at a paltry 2600fps out of my .35 Whelen, I just don't get it. Sure that .338 RCM gets an extra 150-175FPS, but it's in a gun that weighs over a pound less than my Remington 700. How much range time is someone going to want to put in with that?
http://www.hornady.com/story.php?s=761
And, haven't been hearing that Winchester and Remington are both already starting to thin out their lines of Short Magnum cartridges?
Sigh.
Maybe if I had more disposable income, I would understand all this.
greg