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<blockquote data-quote="Counselor II" data-source="post: 1629704" data-attributes="member: 109417"><p>Fellows, you're comparing apples and oranges. The .30-06 was designed for use in the 3 Springfield rifle which was a copy of the 1898 Mauser. The Springfield rifle was built under lisence from the Mauser company in Germany. The .30-06 was intended to be used in a bolt action repeating rifle.</p><p> The .308 Winchester a/k/a 7.62 Nato was designed in the 1950s to be placed in fully automatic weapons, both machine guns and rifles. The .308 is a .30-06 case shortened by 1/2 inch to serve better in rapidly reciprocating actions. It has served this purpose very well in the several machine guns for which it has been chambered and the M14 rifle.</p><p> The .308 is the successor to the .30-06 in the Military. We are civilians using these cartridges for civilian purposes. They should not be viewed as competitors, but as predecessor/successor cartridges. They both serve their purposes well.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Counselor II, post: 1629704, member: 109417"] Fellows, you're comparing apples and oranges. The .30-06 was designed for use in the 3 Springfield rifle which was a copy of the 1898 Mauser. The Springfield rifle was built under lisence from the Mauser company in Germany. The .30-06 was intended to be used in a bolt action repeating rifle. The .308 Winchester a/k/a 7.62 Nato was designed in the 1950s to be placed in fully automatic weapons, both machine guns and rifles. The .308 is a .30-06 case shortened by 1/2 inch to serve better in rapidly reciprocating actions. It has served this purpose very well in the several machine guns for which it has been chambered and the M14 rifle. The .308 is the successor to the .30-06 in the Military. We are civilians using these cartridges for civilian purposes. They should not be viewed as competitors, but as predecessor/successor cartridges. They both serve their purposes well. [/QUOTE]
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