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165 gr. Sierra Gamechanger in 7mm08
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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin45" data-source="post: 1658642" data-attributes="member: 109862"><p>No experience to share, except that I say go for it! </p><p></p><p>People are always saying smaller cases can't drive bigger bullets fast enough to provide a performance gain over shorter lighter projectiles. This is often unsubstantiated and untrue. Yes they won't go as fast and one might infringe in case capacity at normal COAL but lots of folks have had good results with unconventionally heavy bullets in non magnum/short action cartridges. The higher bc still counts, it just might not shoot as flat...at first. It's uncommon perhaps but there's videos and posts about people using 208 hornadys in the 308 with great results. Heck I even had someone (at the gun store!) tell me I was probably misguided to try using 225 elds in my 300 win mag as the case really doesn't have the boiler room for such a big bullet, the usual short neck nonsense, won't drive them fast enough to gain anything over 200 grains, etc... I smiled and bought my powder and didn't try explaining how incredibly wrong this person was. </p><p></p><p>For whatever reason many seem to believe that high bc, high sd, high retained energy and projectile mass only count for anything if it starts at over 2600 fps. If you start a bullet with much lower bc off at 200-300 feet per second faster it sure doesn't take long to catch up. </p><p></p><p>And the point blank range won't be affected nearly as much as people seem to think. When you consider that an optimally zeroed 30-30 can be shot point blank (no more than 3 inches high or low) to 200 yards it makes you wonder why people think 308 family cartridges with high bc bullets are wasted effort.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin45, post: 1658642, member: 109862"] No experience to share, except that I say go for it! People are always saying smaller cases can’t drive bigger bullets fast enough to provide a performance gain over shorter lighter projectiles. This is often unsubstantiated and untrue. Yes they won’t go as fast and one might infringe in case capacity at normal COAL but lots of folks have had good results with unconventionally heavy bullets in non magnum/short action cartridges. The higher bc still counts, it just might not shoot as flat...at first. It’s uncommon perhaps but there’s videos and posts about people using 208 hornadys in the 308 with great results. Heck I even had someone (at the gun store!) tell me I was probably misguided to try using 225 elds in my 300 win mag as the case really doesn’t have the boiler room for such a big bullet, the usual short neck nonsense, won’t drive them fast enough to gain anything over 200 grains, etc... I smiled and bought my powder and didn’t try explaining how incredibly wrong this person was. For whatever reason many seem to believe that high bc, high sd, high retained energy and projectile mass only count for anything if it starts at over 2600 fps. If you start a bullet with much lower bc off at 200-300 feet per second faster it sure doesn’t take long to catch up. And the point blank range won’t be affected nearly as much as people seem to think. When you consider that an optimally zeroed 30-30 can be shot point blank (no more than 3 inches high or low) to 200 yards it makes you wonder why people think 308 family cartridges with high bc bullets are wasted effort. [/QUOTE]
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