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Advice on 1000 yard elk hunting rig?
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<blockquote data-quote="Alex Wheeler" data-source="post: 1503645" data-attributes="member: 101859"><p>It's not going to happen because there are no belted cartridges and the case capacity that we want. And even if all things were equal and there was such a case we would opt for a beltless cartridge so we can size that portion of the case and not end up with Clickers. But it's not going to shoot any different. In that area of the case we are sizing them about 0005. The brass is just not being worked that much and this inconsistent sizing and growth you're talking about is probably more hypothetical than reality. The belts are gone because the cases they are attached to are too big for the raw accuracy requirements of long-range benchrest. They used to be popular in long-range benchrest when the mentality was big heavy bullets and beating the wind. The idea used to be use the biggest bullet drive it as hard as possible because a thousand yards is a long way. As time went on guys realized raw accuracy wins so cases have gotten smaller and smaller to the point where at today where it's very very hard to beat 105 grain 6 mm bullet going right around 3,000 feet per second. So far as this discussion goes and shooting elk at long distance I wouldn't even consider it with anything less than a 200 grain 30 caliber bullet and I would much prefer a 338</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alex Wheeler, post: 1503645, member: 101859"] It's not going to happen because there are no belted cartridges and the case capacity that we want. And even if all things were equal and there was such a case we would opt for a beltless cartridge so we can size that portion of the case and not end up with Clickers. But it's not going to shoot any different. In that area of the case we are sizing them about 0005. The brass is just not being worked that much and this inconsistent sizing and growth you're talking about is probably more hypothetical than reality. The belts are gone because the cases they are attached to are too big for the raw accuracy requirements of long-range benchrest. They used to be popular in long-range benchrest when the mentality was big heavy bullets and beating the wind. The idea used to be use the biggest bullet drive it as hard as possible because a thousand yards is a long way. As time went on guys realized raw accuracy wins so cases have gotten smaller and smaller to the point where at today where it's very very hard to beat 105 grain 6 mm bullet going right around 3,000 feet per second. So far as this discussion goes and shooting elk at long distance I wouldn't even consider it with anything less than a 200 grain 30 caliber bullet and I would much prefer a 338 [/QUOTE]
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