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<blockquote data-quote="wyrshunter1" data-source="post: 2515455" data-attributes="member: 122173"><p>While we are talking silliness and trends I have to confront this short action stuff. Its a half an inch. One of the most popular and economical mountain rifles out of the box hunting rifles is the Tikka. It uses the same action for long and short.</p><p></p><p>With the exception of the .308 family Shorts are also larger in diameter. You have 2 or 3 in the magazine compared to 4 or 5 with anything based off the 30-06 and .308. The way I grew up meat hunting and shooting with animals on the move, across canyons without rangefinders the extra 2 rounds made a difference and I still like that.</p><p></p><p>There is no evidence that there is an inherant accuracy advantage at least on the hunting front with a short. The bolt throw difference might be measured in 100ths of seconds at best. The weight and length is negligible. </p><p>I saw a youtube cartridge comparison from a guy who usually offers a lot of good info. He was doing a deer or pronghorn comparison that the 25-06 clearly should have won easily based on the calibers he was comparing. He eliminated it out of hand based on it basically being outdated and long action. Blew my mind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="wyrshunter1, post: 2515455, member: 122173"] While we are talking silliness and trends I have to confront this short action stuff. Its a half an inch. One of the most popular and economical mountain rifles out of the box hunting rifles is the Tikka. It uses the same action for long and short. With the exception of the .308 family Shorts are also larger in diameter. You have 2 or 3 in the magazine compared to 4 or 5 with anything based off the 30-06 and .308. The way I grew up meat hunting and shooting with animals on the move, across canyons without rangefinders the extra 2 rounds made a difference and I still like that. There is no evidence that there is an inherant accuracy advantage at least on the hunting front with a short. The bolt throw difference might be measured in 100ths of seconds at best. The weight and length is negligible. I saw a youtube cartridge comparison from a guy who usually offers a lot of good info. He was doing a deer or pronghorn comparison that the 25-06 clearly should have won easily based on the calibers he was comparing. He eliminated it out of hand based on it basically being outdated and long action. Blew my mind. [/QUOTE]
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