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Help me decide: Minimum caliber for larger NA game
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<blockquote data-quote="dgascho" data-source="post: 2445417" data-attributes="member: 122187"><p>This is probably a separate topic for a different thread, but another factor is if one maintains velocity/energy better in a shorter barrel. Already having a long-barrel/heavy 6.5 creed, I'm good for bench or pleasure shooting and deer-sized game and smaller out to distances farther than I hunt. Most likely any scenario where I "need" a bigger caliber will be inside 500yd. My plan eventually is to figure out the sweet spot between compact/foldable stock/short barrel + suppressor that I can shove in a backpack. I would like to get down to 18" barrel, but realize you start giving up all the benefit of these rounds if you go too short, so thought maybe I could get away with a 20" barrel? I'm guessing the differences are negligible, but I thought maybe a short magnum with more cross-sectional powder burn rate would suffer less in a shorter barrel?</p><p></p><p>Completely different topic, and may not even be the same gun as my original question, just throwing out a scenario where the 300 wsm might have some pros?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dgascho, post: 2445417, member: 122187"] This is probably a separate topic for a different thread, but another factor is if one maintains velocity/energy better in a shorter barrel. Already having a long-barrel/heavy 6.5 creed, I'm good for bench or pleasure shooting and deer-sized game and smaller out to distances farther than I hunt. Most likely any scenario where I "need" a bigger caliber will be inside 500yd. My plan eventually is to figure out the sweet spot between compact/foldable stock/short barrel + suppressor that I can shove in a backpack. I would like to get down to 18" barrel, but realize you start giving up all the benefit of these rounds if you go too short, so thought maybe I could get away with a 20" barrel? I'm guessing the differences are negligible, but I thought maybe a short magnum with more cross-sectional powder burn rate would suffer less in a shorter barrel? Completely different topic, and may not even be the same gun as my original question, just throwing out a scenario where the 300 wsm might have some pros? [/QUOTE]
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