pushing the envelope - 05/02/02
Ken, If you can make it through my rambling maybe you can give your thoughts on this.
<br>For years I`ve read and heard people state this or that cartridge would be better if it was chambered in a longer action. It seems a 257Roberts has to be in a long action so you can seat bullets out and get 25/06 vel or shoot heavier bullets. The same with the 260 rem, 708, a few others, and now the new short mags.
<br>My thoughts are if you want to drive a heavy for caliber bullet at high vel buy a mag. If you want more vel out of a 160 gr 6.5MM bullet buy a Swede or a 264. If you want 2800+ fps with a 160gr 7mm don`t buy a 708 get a 280. We all reload so lowering the velocity to the smaller catridges level is no problem, if thats what we need for our present applications. We hear the praises of the short actions accuracy / wgt advantages one day then how a short action round needs a long action the next to do its best. I feel the shorter rounds were designed to throw mid wgt (240-250 SD) bullets at velocities approching the larger rounds in a smaller lighter rifle, not to match or excede the larger cases capabilities. I`m not talking about wildcaters, just people that want to make a cartridge something its not.
<br>Anyway this line of thinking lets me own a couple rifles in one caliber rather then only one:<)
<br>For years I`ve read and heard people state this or that cartridge would be better if it was chambered in a longer action. It seems a 257Roberts has to be in a long action so you can seat bullets out and get 25/06 vel or shoot heavier bullets. The same with the 260 rem, 708, a few others, and now the new short mags.
<br>My thoughts are if you want to drive a heavy for caliber bullet at high vel buy a mag. If you want more vel out of a 160 gr 6.5MM bullet buy a Swede or a 264. If you want 2800+ fps with a 160gr 7mm don`t buy a 708 get a 280. We all reload so lowering the velocity to the smaller catridges level is no problem, if thats what we need for our present applications. We hear the praises of the short actions accuracy / wgt advantages one day then how a short action round needs a long action the next to do its best. I feel the shorter rounds were designed to throw mid wgt (240-250 SD) bullets at velocities approching the larger rounds in a smaller lighter rifle, not to match or excede the larger cases capabilities. I`m not talking about wildcaters, just people that want to make a cartridge something its not.
<br>Anyway this line of thinking lets me own a couple rifles in one caliber rather then only one:<)