The next big thing!!
10-28-2008, 01:09 AM
#1
Fork Horn
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The next big thing!!
What do you guys think the industry will try an dump on us this year? We've seen WSM,WSSM,RSUM and Ruger compact magnums. The 300 WSM seems to have done well here with a slite fallowing of 270 WSM. The WSSM was a flop across the board and we haven't even seen a Ruger compact mangnum or the 338 Federal. I have a 270 WSM and like it. It shoots well but, doesn't give a big enough boost over the 270 win. That i would have traded one to get it. Whats next?
10-28-2008, 07:33 AM
#3
Boone & Crockett
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: Eastern PA
Posts: 12,712
RE: The next big thing!!
Who knows. And I don't know what they are doing to this new propellant to give these 'small' cases the same MV as the old reliables like the 338 Win Mag. and 300 Win Mag with similar pressures.
I think if they made this propellant available to the public you could probably get pertty close to these same ballistics out of your bolt action 308. Can you imagine something like a bolt action 358 win with this new powder. With - say - 25% increase in MV/Eng without any increase in pressure? That would be one heck of a round.
I think if they made this propellant available to the public you could probably get pertty close to these same ballistics out of your bolt action 308. Can you imagine something like a bolt action 358 win with this new powder. With - say - 25% increase in MV/Eng without any increase in pressure? That would be one heck of a round.
10-28-2008, 08:46 AM
#4
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: va USA
Posts: 580
RE: The next big thing!!
ORIGINAL: bronko22000
Who knows. And I don't know what they are doing to this new propellant to give these 'small' cases the same MV as the old reliables like the 338 Win Mag. and 300 Win Mag with similar pressures.
I think if they made this propellant available to the public you could probably get pertty close to these same ballistics out of your bolt action 308. Can you imagine something like a bolt action 358 win with this new powder. With - say - 25% increase in MV/Eng without any increase in pressure? That would be one heck of a round.
Who knows. And I don't know what they are doing to this new propellant to give these 'small' cases the same MV as the old reliables like the 338 Win Mag. and 300 Win Mag with similar pressures.
I think if they made this propellant available to the public you could probably get pertty close to these same ballistics out of your bolt action 308. Can you imagine something like a bolt action 358 win with this new powder. With - say - 25% increase in MV/Eng without any increase in pressure? That would be one heck of a round.
10-28-2008, 06:05 PM
#9
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Maine
Posts: 1,327
RE: The next big thing!!
I'd rather see some classics come back. The game animals haven't gotten tougher hides and the range targets could care if it's a .22lr or a .50 BMG. Don't need any more whix-bang cartridges, all the niches have been filled and then some. Rather than putting out new cartridges, how bout offering new models in which to use the existing cartridges in.
