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<blockquote data-quote="packgoatguy" data-source="post: 1555439" data-attributes="member: 27192"><p>Do you believe that this is comparing wimpy 300win to optimistic 7WSM? Hornady advertised 2850 for the 300wm and 3000 for the 7wsm. Are you suggesting that these values are inaccurate? My purpose here is to produce a comparable baseline to assess the advantages of the various cartridges side by side, apples to apples.</p><p></p><p>I would assume that even if a particular shooter can handload his 7mmRM and get 3050fps using the same 162gr ELDX bullets being used for this baseline, (which would be higher than the factory advertised velocity of 2940), then that same shooter could likewise handload a 338 or a 28nosler to get additional velocity from that as well correct? </p><p></p><p>My question is, at what point (using the same bullets, same barrel length, and all other variables all being kept the same) does one cartridge or the other "beat" its competition? Each of these cartridges would have to have some sort of a ceiling for the maximum safe pressures that they could yield... and at some point, those max velocities could be put side by side... However, statistically speaking, I would bet that the velocities achieved by manufactures like hornady for the cartridges and loadings they offer, so long as you are using the same "style" of bullets for the comparison, will represent the same difference. </p><p></p><p>UNLESS (and this is the part I don't know from personal experience) do some of the available long range cartridge options have MORE room until they reach that ceiling of max velocity than others? That would change the outcome of the analysis.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="packgoatguy, post: 1555439, member: 27192"] Do you believe that this is comparing wimpy 300win to optimistic 7WSM? Hornady advertised 2850 for the 300wm and 3000 for the 7wsm. Are you suggesting that these values are inaccurate? My purpose here is to produce a comparable baseline to assess the advantages of the various cartridges side by side, apples to apples. I would assume that even if a particular shooter can handload his 7mmRM and get 3050fps using the same 162gr ELDX bullets being used for this baseline, (which would be higher than the factory advertised velocity of 2940), then that same shooter could likewise handload a 338 or a 28nosler to get additional velocity from that as well correct? My question is, at what point (using the same bullets, same barrel length, and all other variables all being kept the same) does one cartridge or the other "beat" its competition? Each of these cartridges would have to have some sort of a ceiling for the maximum safe pressures that they could yield... and at some point, those max velocities could be put side by side... However, statistically speaking, I would bet that the velocities achieved by manufactures like hornady for the cartridges and loadings they offer, so long as you are using the same "style" of bullets for the comparison, will represent the same difference. UNLESS (and this is the part I don't know from personal experience) do some of the available long range cartridge options have MORE room until they reach that ceiling of max velocity than others? That would change the outcome of the analysis. [/QUOTE]
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