Kind of Blued
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I understand it mainly from a military standpoint in that it could be:
Carried slightly more easily in large quantities.
Cycled more rapidly through a machine gun.
Loaded more efficiently, and consequently, more inexpensively.
But I don't really understand why something such as the movement from the 30-06 to the .308 was such a seemingly "necessary" thing (excluding NATO regulations), or why having a long-action cartridge is a "bad" thing.
Is it an effort to get to the launching of a .30 caliber projectile as efficiently as possible? Couldn't we have figured that out a long long time ago?
Carried slightly more easily in large quantities.
Cycled more rapidly through a machine gun.
Loaded more efficiently, and consequently, more inexpensively.
But I don't really understand why something such as the movement from the 30-06 to the .308 was such a seemingly "necessary" thing (excluding NATO regulations), or why having a long-action cartridge is a "bad" thing.
Is it an effort to get to the launching of a .30 caliber projectile as efficiently as possible? Couldn't we have figured that out a long long time ago?