Now where is that “like” button?
Two people have asked what calibre he’s shooting and he won’t say.
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I have one too. Great round, a 140 at 3200 is ballistic magic. Just look at the charts. That's why Winchester brought it out, they had read the charts. I haven't shot mine much, being aware of the possibility of throat erosion . In the early days they got a lot of hard use with varmint rounds, so that was one aspect. I was thinking about this earlier today. Another thing, Olin wasn't able to make a specialty powder like mother DuPont did for Remington and it 's 7mmRM. So the powder was faster burning and more and likely hotter. The F-Class guys are hard on their barrels, 15 or 20 at a time, and the smaller 6.5-284 only lasts under a 1000 rounds for them.
If you are careful, it's meaningless. It's not the rifle for gopher town, though.
The 264 Win Mag barrel burner reputation comes from early days of varminters shooting lighter bullets, fast burning powder, and steel quality/construction. It was probably a relevant argument 40 or 50 years ago.
It’s one heck of a hunting cartridge. I’d own one but it’d make my poor little 6.5 Creedmoor feel left out. :grin:
:wink: closer to 60 years ago. While the 6.5mm s have always been a passing fads in North America, there have been numerous 6.5s over the years , here are few off the top of my head, 6.5x55,260,256Newton, 6.5-06, 6.5RM. 6.5-284, 6.5x57. 6.5x57Rimmed, 26Nosler, 6.5x54 , 6.5Arisaka . I'm sure I missed a few. As a reloader you can access them all.
wierd thread.
Hi RJ
yes I keep it quiet in my original post as I don’t want a ballistics argument. But here it comes.
I shoot a savage model 99c in 308, given to me by my dad when I was 16, I’m 58 now.
I don't think a HUNTER can shoot out a barrel out of a .308 in two or three lifetimes. .308's used for hunting will last forever.
Nope !
Cheers