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Originally Posted by
00possum
What if we used stronger brass to help compensate for the pressure?
And frankly, it's all a moot discussion. A .223rem will kill a deer at 600yrds if you place it well with the right bullet construction (I'm sure it would do further, but that's MY number for it). The margin for error is smaller with a 22cal than it might be with a larger cased, larger caliber cartridge, but it CAN be done. So basically you're asking how to improve a cartridge to do something it can already do.
my point exactly, the only way to know what a cartridge can do is build, shoot it a lot, and learn what it can do, before you ask why it can't do it. I've taken severalchucks at 500, deer beyond 400 and have never really worked with mine in the long range arena, if and when I ever find a dpms single stack mag I will give the 80 grains a go.
RR