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    Certainly the .30-06 is still a big seller, and I'll sit right here and argue all day that it's our most versatile cartridge. It will be interesting to track the path of both it and the .308 over the next few years. Many .30 caliber magnums have tried to challenge the supremacy of the .300 Win. Mag.; none has succeeded. Yet.
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    The current 6.8 Western cartridge offerings from Winchester and Browning have BCs over .600, and when you combine that with velocities of 2,835 for the 175-grain Sierra Tipped GameKing load and 2,960 for the 165-grain AccuBond LR load you can see why this cartridge has the potential to take even the largest game at extended distances.
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    In the late 1880s, when smokeless propellants became available, the world's militaries started switching from large-caliber blackpowder cartridges to faster cartridges of lesser calibers with smaller cases. Early favorites included 6.5mm (.264 inch), 7mm (.284 inch), and 8mm (.32 caliber). In adopting the .30-40 Krag, which employed a .308 ...
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    However, today's rifleshooters want more velocity and flatter trajectories. So, virtually all "new" 6.5mm cartridges are designed around lighter, aerodynamic bullets. There are no "slow" 6.5mm rifle cartridges, but there is a notable exception to my three groupings. The little 6.5 Grendel was designed to fit into the AR-15 platform.
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    Apr 15, 2024While the AR-15's original 5.56 NATO/.223 Remington cartridge has been tweaked and modified in an effort to make it long-range-capable, there are modern cartridges that trounce it. So, for the purposes of this article, we're going to use the 5.56 NATO as the benchmark and demonstrate that other cartridges are superior.
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    Aug 26, 2023It started in 1895 with Winchester's .25-35 using a .257-inch bullet. Metrically speaking, it's 6.53mm, but all ".25 caliber" cartridges have used .257 bullets. I wish the rest were so simple. Several early 6.5mm military cartridges specified a .263-inch bullet. The first .264-inch cartridge was Italy's 1891 6.5x52 Carcano.
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    Aug 13, 2024Since the pioneer days, scores of 6mm cartridges have hit the scene, and there are probably more wildcat 6mms out there than standardized cartridges. Many are doing well in their unregulated state, and several have transcended to the commercial space, igniting their popularity. (L.-r.): 6mm Norma BR, 6mm Dasher, 6XC, 6x47 Lapua, 6mm Creedmoor ...
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    The cartridge made its debut in the Model 70 rifle, and though it was almost ignored to death by hunters and shooters early on, the stubby cartridge eventually caught on big time. Regardless of whether a popularity chart is based on the annual sales of ammunition or loading dies, the .308 has long ranked among the top five big game cartridges.
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    This cartridge crosses into the high-velocity territory that necessitates a tough, controlled-expansion bullet to prevent excessive fragmentation on impact, particularly for use on big-bodied game. That said, with savvy bullet selection, the .264 Win. Mag. works wonderfully on all North American big game up to and including elk.
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    Then and now, the .45-70 is the most common cartridge in big single-shot actions. John Marlin's Model 1881 lever action was the first repeating action large enough to house the .45-70, followed by the Winchester Model 1886 and the Marlin 1895. ... The several early 6.5mm military cartridges used heavy-for-caliber bullets, from 156 to 160 ...
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