Has anybody tried the new Hornady .300 win mag high performance ammo? According to the Hornady charts you can buy a factory load and fire it in a 24 inch barrel, and move a high BC 180 grain bullet at 3100 fps. Zeroed in at 200 yards you are only 5.5 inches low at three hundred. This fact makes one wonder why anybody would ever need the imaginary extra range of something like the 28 Nosler. Why not just stick with what is tried and true and not so expensive? Another of asking this is, in real life conditions does the purported superiority of the fancy "state-of-the-art" rounds like the Nosler calibers enough of an improvement to matter? Or is it merely planned obsolescence?
It's called capitalism and marketing at it's finest!! I argue this every time I read about the Creedmoor, the Noslers and all of the latest and most famous designer cartridges as they come out. Whether anyone wants to admit it or not, there's just so much powder and so many bullets that can be put into a case and into a firearm, and there's just so much velocity that you can get out of that combination, PERIOD!! A few years back the .280 Ackley Improved came out, it was the greatest, latest, 10,000 yard, long-range, anti tank, T Rex, elephant killing machine on the planet. Then...............the 6.5 Creedmoor came out and again the shooting public drank that Kool Aid!!! And....before I get beat up by the .280AI and Creedmoor aficionados they're both great cartridges and not knocking them. But with that said, if one is honest with themself if one were to compare the new, "designer" cartridges with the "ole" school cartridges there's really not that much difference between velocity/performance. Yes one might get 200 fps difference in performance, however to the average hunter/shooter there's really not that much difference to make it worth the extra expense placed upon the barrel/equipment and the pocket book. Oftentimes a new designer round will come out and I will compare the stats of that designer round with the 30-06 and the .270 Winchester, or....the 300 WinMag or the 338 WinMag. If one has to eek out every single drip of velocity out of a particular caliber, then by all means go out and get one, however more than likely that designer round really isn't that much better, if at all, then the cartridges that have been around for a very long time. I can also provide an argument about the availability, and cost of those new, designer, barrel burning cartridges that have/are coming out, I'm seeing $4 a piece for brass, "IF" one can even find it. And.....lastly I am considered "Ole school" kind of guy. My favorites are the .222 Remington, 6.5-06, .270 Winchester, .270 Ackley Improved, .308 Winchester, 30-06, .358 Winchester, 35 Whelen and 45-70. To me these are all great, hard to beat, cartridges, but......they don't sell magazines, new components and new firearms.
Of course not! Just the distances most here shoot makes 300 no big deal. It wasn't a slap at you at all just an observation. Maybe not as humorous as I hoped. The 06 is actually IMO a pretty decent LR rifle with right set up. Put it in a 26" barrel and it behaves a lot differently than the standard 22" barrel it is normally in. I hope you do not take it any other way than what I just explained.
