Besides your punctuation and spelling, 6.8 Western
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Besides your punctuation and spelling, 6.8 Western
She needs a pair of Wranglers, Luchesse's, button down with a big silver buckle andI'll take the one on the right every time
I'm in!!!
and barrel length, I love the new "general" options for the new poll. Long barrel to one is 18" or more, and the next person is 26" or more. Same for short barrel one is anything under those same measurements. How did the WSSM's turn out for Winchester?
Dang, you sure we ain't related?
They sucked even if you wanted to rebarrel to something useful, nothing fits. I do know a guy who cut, swapped bolt heads and tig welded to make use of two useless actions. He could have bought custom actions for the amount he had in both.
There always seems to be a few good cartridges, that get left by the wayside too soon. A guy would think, Ruger's 338 RCM should of had a bit longer run. Yep, it's still around but, 200 to 225 grain bullets at 2,900 fps seems it would have quite a following.
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pecker_wood
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I just watched a few videos from hornady and their compact magnums. I liked their thinking around those handy short action magnums. I think I was in the military during that time frame so I missed out on all of the RCM stuff somehow.
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A 20" 338 edge is well lets just say .. down right flippin angry!! and that's putting nicely .. that's why my can never leaves it!
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I had 30 338 375 in the works.. had a brass guy lined out to. we all know how that story went for the brass guy
Not hijacking the thread...okay..maybe for a second...anyone notice SAVAGE ARMS is now selling suppressors!
Yup, "The Accucan". Sounds like a new fangled toilet!!
pecker_wood
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Is it fully adjustable for weight, length, caliber and diameter and made of 37 random parts from ebay??
The 6.5 PRC is actually based on the 338 RCM case (the 300 RCM is a touch longer). The 6.5 PRC, like the 6.8 Western, has a max COAL of 2.955" and is already too long for true short actions.
The selling point of the RCM series was "magnum performance from 20" barrels" and it didn't sell. The catch was that the Hornady ammo used proprietary propellants, so handloaders at the time couldn't match the velocities. It was effectively a Superformance load. Hornady recently had a podcast on the RCM cartridges that had a lot of interesting info.
To fit in a true short action ( 2.81"), a .30 cal running a long-ogived bullet would need a shorter case and be closer to 30-06 performance. It would be much like the Olympic Arms 300 OSSM (based on the 25 WSSM case), but with a fast twist barrel.
Someone else mentioned that the closest thing with readily available ammo is the 300 WSM running a heavy bullet. Heavy bullets tend to get more out of shorter barrels.
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