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Help me pick a cartridge
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<blockquote data-quote="Alibiiv" data-source="post: 1951098" data-attributes="member: 69192"><p>You did not indicate what you intend to hunt/use this rifle for. I have a .270AI, essentially a .270 WSM, that I believe is one of the best cartridges on the marke it today. With the .270 WSM there will <em><u>"probably"</u></em> be <em>"off-the-shelf</em>" ammunition for the round. If you reload there ought to be components, brass especially, at a reasonable price (depending on cartridge brass can cost $1.00+ a piece). If you go with a wildcat you will have to make your brass, that means custom dies ($200-300) and an annealing system a minimum investment that can run up to $1000+. Lastly there is the variable of the "feed rails" that oftentimes gets left out of the equation. Those super short cartridges can run into some serious feeding problems, not saying this is the case with all of them, but.....that potential is there. I have a really nice BLR that I rebored from .308 Winchester to .358 Winchester that ended up with a feed problem. The .308 is the parent cartridge for the .358, but that small difference in case dimensions, like .020 thousandths, has give me nothing but a PITA. So......as a result I have a very nice rifle that sits in the safe because I don't trust it to feed properly. If this were my rifle I would spend money on a premium <strong><em><u>"26 inch"</u></em></strong> barrel (to get all the performance out of this overbore cartridge), a blue-print job on the action, a good trigger or a trigger job, and......perhaps a new stock if you feel you need/want one.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alibiiv, post: 1951098, member: 69192"] You did not indicate what you intend to hunt/use this rifle for. I have a .270AI, essentially a .270 WSM, that I believe is one of the best cartridges on the marke it today. With the .270 WSM there will [I][U]"probably"[/U][/I] be [I]"off-the-shelf[/I]" ammunition for the round. If you reload there ought to be components, brass especially, at a reasonable price (depending on cartridge brass can cost $1.00+ a piece). If you go with a wildcat you will have to make your brass, that means custom dies ($200-300) and an annealing system a minimum investment that can run up to $1000+. Lastly there is the variable of the "feed rails" that oftentimes gets left out of the equation. Those super short cartridges can run into some serious feeding problems, not saying this is the case with all of them, but.....that potential is there. I have a really nice BLR that I rebored from .308 Winchester to .358 Winchester that ended up with a feed problem. The .308 is the parent cartridge for the .358, but that small difference in case dimensions, like .020 thousandths, has give me nothing but a PITA. So......as a result I have a very nice rifle that sits in the safe because I don't trust it to feed properly. If this were my rifle I would spend money on a premium [B][I][U]"26 inch"[/U][/I][/B] barrel (to get all the performance out of this overbore cartridge), a blue-print job on the action, a good trigger or a trigger job, and......perhaps a new stock if you feel you need/want one. [/QUOTE]
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