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The Basics, Starting Out
300 WSM vs. 300 win mag ?
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<blockquote data-quote="WyomingShooter" data-source="post: 174867" data-attributes="member: 9529"><p>The beauty of the short mag is the short action allowing you to build a very light rifle approaching the big mag velocities. This is great for western mountain hunters where weight means a lot. It is also a very accurate cartridge. Very efficient with less recoil, powder and noise than the big mags. It wasn't designed to have 300 winny or wby velocities but to fill a niche we didn't have and it serves that purpose well. It is not equal to the larger case mags. I think that data was skewed. When the short mags came out a guy brought his new 270 short mag by the shop bragging to everyone how it would outshoot the 270 wby. We pulled one of my 270 wby's off the shelf and fired them through the chrony. Then he swore something was wrong with his gun because it came up about 200 fps shy of the wby. It wasn't designed to shoot with the wby but I sure wish I could get the wby into a short action. </p><p> </p><p>For long range shooters loving to get the most out of those short actions they believe in so much it will probably gain a good following. I know my 243 improved is awesome at long range in that little short action. The last group I shot with it was 5/8" at 300 yards.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WyomingShooter, post: 174867, member: 9529"] The beauty of the short mag is the short action allowing you to build a very light rifle approaching the big mag velocities. This is great for western mountain hunters where weight means a lot. It is also a very accurate cartridge. Very efficient with less recoil, powder and noise than the big mags. It wasn't designed to have 300 winny or wby velocities but to fill a niche we didn't have and it serves that purpose well. It is not equal to the larger case mags. I think that data was skewed. When the short mags came out a guy brought his new 270 short mag by the shop bragging to everyone how it would outshoot the 270 wby. We pulled one of my 270 wby's off the shelf and fired them through the chrony. Then he swore something was wrong with his gun because it came up about 200 fps shy of the wby. It wasn't designed to shoot with the wby but I sure wish I could get the wby into a short action. For long range shooters loving to get the most out of those short actions they believe in so much it will probably gain a good following. I know my 243 improved is awesome at long range in that little short action. The last group I shot with it was 5/8" at 300 yards. [/QUOTE]
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