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Most versatile chambering for handloaders?
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<blockquote data-quote="GeorgeS" data-source="post: 1619612" data-attributes="member: 107925"><p>Exactly the point that I made - that it's not a slouch. In your eyes, 250 f/s is a big difference; in my eyes, that's pretty close - i.e. 3100 vs 3300 - a 6% difference. hardly worth splitting hairs over. Likewise, looking down to the .308 vs '06 - 2,000 psi difference in a 46 year younger cartridge. Loaded to similar pressures, there's only about a 150 f/s difference.</p><p></p><p>The essence of my point is simple: older cartridges can be brought up to higher performance with guns made of modern steel, because they were originally designed for the metallurgy of their age. No one would compare the performance of the .45-70 post-Civil War 1873 vintage black powder cartridge with that of a modern smokeless round - you'd use modern .45-70 rounds for the comparison, because both the round and the guns that fire it have been modernized.</p><p></p><p>That's the very simple point that I made; the '06 was spec'd in, well, '06 - it's 2019. Think things have changed in 113 years? Or do we still use crank telephones?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="GeorgeS, post: 1619612, member: 107925"] Exactly the point that I made - that it's not a slouch. In your eyes, 250 f/s is a big difference; in my eyes, that's pretty close - i.e. 3100 vs 3300 - a 6% difference. hardly worth splitting hairs over. Likewise, looking down to the .308 vs '06 - 2,000 psi difference in a 46 year younger cartridge. Loaded to similar pressures, there's only about a 150 f/s difference. The essence of my point is simple: older cartridges can be brought up to higher performance with guns made of modern steel, because they were originally designed for the metallurgy of their age. No one would compare the performance of the .45-70 post-Civil War 1873 vintage black powder cartridge with that of a modern smokeless round - you'd use modern .45-70 rounds for the comparison, because both the round and the guns that fire it have been modernized. That's the very simple point that I made; the '06 was spec'd in, well, '06 - it's 2019. Think things have changed in 113 years? Or do we still use crank telephones? [/QUOTE]
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