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what long range cartridge would work best for a remington short action
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<blockquote data-quote="Fiftydriver" data-source="post: 483655" data-attributes="member: 10"><p>The 6.5-284 can easily be put into a short action with an extended max box. Yes the bullets have to be seated a bit deeper. If you take a top end loaded 6.5-284 with a 3.000" OAL and one with a 3.250" OAL, the difference in performance will be about 50-75 fps.......</p><p> </p><p>And, the short throated 6.5-284 will still putperform anything except a WSM or RSAM class chambering in same caliber.</p><p> </p><p>Throat length is often overblown as far as velocity performance you gain from it from increased case capacity. Yes its there but its marginal compared to what most would have you believe.</p><p> </p><p>Its very similiar to the myths that many spout about increased FPS per inch of barrel length. Used to be many would say you will get 50 fps per inch of barrel length, that is simply false. Even the most extreme, low expansion ratio chamberings will only gain around 35 fps per inch of barrel length over 24" barrel length. Most conventional chamberings will get 10 to 15 fps at most, occasionally around 20 fps but thats MAX.</p><p> </p><p>Simply put, just like the old V-8, cubic inches equals horsepower with all else being equal, same way in rifle chamberings. Case volume equals performance, pure and simple, no magical way to get around it other then running the pressures very high to make up for case capacity and that is never a good thing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Fiftydriver, post: 483655, member: 10"] The 6.5-284 can easily be put into a short action with an extended max box. Yes the bullets have to be seated a bit deeper. If you take a top end loaded 6.5-284 with a 3.000" OAL and one with a 3.250" OAL, the difference in performance will be about 50-75 fps....... And, the short throated 6.5-284 will still putperform anything except a WSM or RSAM class chambering in same caliber. Throat length is often overblown as far as velocity performance you gain from it from increased case capacity. Yes its there but its marginal compared to what most would have you believe. Its very similiar to the myths that many spout about increased FPS per inch of barrel length. Used to be many would say you will get 50 fps per inch of barrel length, that is simply false. Even the most extreme, low expansion ratio chamberings will only gain around 35 fps per inch of barrel length over 24" barrel length. Most conventional chamberings will get 10 to 15 fps at most, occasionally around 20 fps but thats MAX. Simply put, just like the old V-8, cubic inches equals horsepower with all else being equal, same way in rifle chamberings. Case volume equals performance, pure and simple, no magical way to get around it other then running the pressures very high to make up for case capacity and that is never a good thing. [/QUOTE]
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