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Why do snipers use .308 with so many other options??? What is best re
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<blockquote data-quote="Brown Dog" data-source="post: 145653" data-attributes="member: 1622"><p>[ QUOTE ]</p><p>What I cannot comprehend, is why say, the best shooters in the world, with UNLIMITED resources (military) choose the calibres they choose. </p><p></p><p>[/ QUOTE ]</p><p> </p><p>...well, I would firstly say that resources are not unlimited; then point out that (superimposed on this) is the reality that procurement decisions are often politically driven.</p><p></p><p>With regard to 30-06 and 308 (and I would stand correction here!) I believe (pre-WW2) the US decision not to adopt a .276 round ballistically better suited to the demands of combat was based on two things: the sheer amount of 30-06 on hand coupled with the fact that it was thought that rifles should fire the same ammo as machine guns. In the 1950s, another ballistically more appropriate round (.280) was fielded by the Brits in the EM2 and FN FAL but didn't make it for no better reason than that the US Army Chief of Ordnance didn't want to go below .30 ........(so I suppose you could add 'personality' as a procurement limiter too!) I guess he'd moved on when the 5.56 was adopted /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Brown Dog, post: 145653, member: 1622"] [ QUOTE ] What I cannot comprehend, is why say, the best shooters in the world, with UNLIMITED resources (military) choose the calibres they choose. [/ QUOTE ] ...well, I would firstly say that resources are not unlimited; then point out that (superimposed on this) is the reality that procurement decisions are often politically driven. With regard to 30-06 and 308 (and I would stand correction here!) I believe (pre-WW2) the US decision not to adopt a .276 round ballistically better suited to the demands of combat was based on two things: the sheer amount of 30-06 on hand coupled with the fact that it was thought that rifles should fire the same ammo as machine guns. In the 1950s, another ballistically more appropriate round (.280) was fielded by the Brits in the EM2 and FN FAL but didn't make it for no better reason than that the US Army Chief of Ordnance didn't want to go below .30 ........(so I suppose you could add 'personality' as a procurement limiter too!) I guess he'd moved on when the 5.56 was adopted [img]/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img] [/QUOTE]
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