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<blockquote data-quote="Nighthawk" data-source="post: 22984" data-attributes="member: 467"><p>Moosehunter, I agree to all of what you said about the 7.62 thing. The .223 is weak in my opinion. We should have stayed with it, but had a different rifle that the M14. </p><p></p><p>Catshooter, I remember when I started on this site that there were some "rules" I had to follow so I'm not going to say anything, but I will say this. My neighbor is an Ex Navy SEAL and he was a sniper instructor and he didn't like the .50 BMG for all of the disadvantages that PrimeTime mentioned. Also Sierra is making a bullet for the .408 with a lead core because it is on an e-mail from the designer of the .408 sent to me. The advantages of the .408 are not soley bases on the bullet. If you have "read up on it" you would have seen that there is more than just the bullet, there is the powder, and the case also. If you were to use a .50 in what ever bullet you wanted and compaired it to the .408 I beet you would see an advantage in the .408 whether you like it or not. Maybe when you said that is it is as good as it should be then it should be winning all of the 1,000 yard competitions, maybe you should have considered that since it is such a new round that knowbody has one or they don't want to spend thousands more to get one and they will stick with their .50. About the record with the .50 having better groups at 1,000 yards than the .30 can't really be true because the record at that 1,000 yard mark is 1.5 inch groups from a .300 Win Mag and if I'm not mistaken that is a .30 cal. About the weight a few pounds less to me would be a good thing. I think everything you have against the .408 is opinion too. You like the .50 better because you have one. How do you know that the Military has little interest in the round so far? Are you in the Military and know all about this?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Nighthawk, post: 22984, member: 467"] Moosehunter, I agree to all of what you said about the 7.62 thing. The .223 is weak in my opinion. We should have stayed with it, but had a different rifle that the M14. Catshooter, I remember when I started on this site that there were some "rules" I had to follow so I'm not going to say anything, but I will say this. My neighbor is an Ex Navy SEAL and he was a sniper instructor and he didn't like the .50 BMG for all of the disadvantages that PrimeTime mentioned. Also Sierra is making a bullet for the .408 with a lead core because it is on an e-mail from the designer of the .408 sent to me. The advantages of the .408 are not soley bases on the bullet. If you have "read up on it" you would have seen that there is more than just the bullet, there is the powder, and the case also. If you were to use a .50 in what ever bullet you wanted and compaired it to the .408 I beet you would see an advantage in the .408 whether you like it or not. Maybe when you said that is it is as good as it should be then it should be winning all of the 1,000 yard competitions, maybe you should have considered that since it is such a new round that knowbody has one or they don't want to spend thousands more to get one and they will stick with their .50. About the record with the .50 having better groups at 1,000 yards than the .30 can't really be true because the record at that 1,000 yard mark is 1.5 inch groups from a .300 Win Mag and if I'm not mistaken that is a .30 cal. About the weight a few pounds less to me would be a good thing. I think everything you have against the .408 is opinion too. You like the .50 better because you have one. How do you know that the Military has little interest in the round so far? Are you in the Military and know all about this? [/QUOTE]
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