when was the last time you heard of a group of bureaucrats making the right choice ?
Caliber Choice And What The U.S. Army Got Wrong…Again
New Winchester Powder - WINCHESTER® STABALL™ 6.5
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when was the last time you heard of a group of bureaucrats making the right choice ?
Caliber Choice And What The U.S. Army Got Wrong…Again
Marco Califo
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Last I heard it was 300 magnum for long range sniper rifles.
USMC was using 50 BMG rifles; doubt they gave them back.
The 260 would have been logical. 308 necked to 6.5. LC was already making the brass.
USMC was using 50 BMG rifles; doubt they gave them back.
The 260 would have been logical. 308 necked to 6.5. LC was already making the brass.
It isn't simply a matter of comparing ballistics on paper. They were looking for a new intermediate caliber for machine guns, assault rifles and sniper rifles. The snipers training with the 6.5 CM doubled their hit probability at 1000 meters over the 7.62 sniper rifles. They also did a side-by-side with the 260 Rem and got essentially no measurable difference in practice and concluded the 6.5 CM gave them more room to fiddle with new bullet designs and to do other tweakings.
Don't know how scientific this is so take with a grain of salt:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcy8zqclIns&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0VElanHpFCLMmdweoJIoaiW1TdK2wzSXSPqhI_GyQsBxWQJUFlqWImzuI
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcy8zqclIns&feature=share&fbclid=IwAR0VElanHpFCLMmdweoJIoaiW1TdK2wzSXSPqhI_GyQsBxWQJUFlqWImzuI
stagpanther
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I have lots of Creedmoor spawn--as well as most of the 308 spawn. I also have lots of RL26--I'll get some of this stuff soon just for comparison grins, in general I don't use Winchester powders much except for 231 and 296. I have to admit the name is a cluster bucket from the marketing point of view IMO.
Ya never know til you pull the trigger.
Ya never know til you pull the trigger.
Marco Califo
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Uh, so what?
Read a little further and you will see SMP St. Mark's Powders, who make it.
I also noted it was printed on white paper, and the pages are numbered and consecutive. What is your point?
The linked article says Winchester is the largest US ammunition supplier beside of LC. They have operated LC in the past, too.
Alliant is now in their current and final Federal fiscal contract year. I hope that means commercial sales (acknowledged in the article), will continue until October 2020 at least. I was afraid they had dried up
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.ex...-offered-on-lake-city-changes?template=ampart
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