Randy W. just wrote a really good post over on another board about ML's being compared to magnum centerfires.
The article promted me to do ballistic comparisons on:
http://www.handloads.com/calc/index.html
so what I did was grab my Speer reloading manual and looked up the infomation on a 30-30 Winchester - ran those numbers through the ballistic calculator then fed in the numbers I have for a 45 cal 250 grain bullet from the A&H
... surprised the numbers are really close you can make a case that the 30-30 is superior to a 50 cal inline or just the opposit. I would venture to say that there is a lot of people out there that would believe their inline much more powerful than a 30-30. At least a lot of ML companies want us to believe it, and I guess I certainly wanted to. I know a 150 grain charge would up these numbers a bit, but the Law of Deminishing Returns also catches up with you very fast.
well, anyway here is the comparison:
I did not plug in xwinds which really have a drastic effect on big ML bullets..