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.300 Win Mag replacing .308 Win as Army Sniping Round?
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<blockquote data-quote="ez bake" data-source="post: 800587" data-attributes="member: 229"><p>I'm going to throw out a devil's advocate opinion on the matter.</p><p></p><p>For midrange sniping, is .300 Win Mag really that much better than .308 (yes - its certainly ballisticaly better, but by enough to justify this big of a change)?</p><p></p><p>From 100-300yds, was .308 that bad?</p><p></p><p>For 500+ yards, sure - go with a different caliber, but would .300 Win Mag be the first choice? There's a lot of other options at that point.</p><p></p><p>I don't know - .300 is a good caliber and for long-range, it certainly beats the .308, but that's a huge change to make and as a result, lots of Military rifles will have to be changed out (and a number of the accessories won't work with the newer rifles either since the change means going from short action to long action).</p><p></p><p>Just seems like a lot of change when most of the long-shot folks are already using something different than .308 anyways. The Army has a host of other antiquated arms/cartridges that they could be working on besides this one - just strikes me as odd that this is the first change they would make.</p><p></p><p>I don't know - I'm a .308 fanboy, so I guess I'm biased - the .300 win mag is a great cartridge so I guess this is a good thing.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ez bake, post: 800587, member: 229"] I'm going to throw out a devil's advocate opinion on the matter. For midrange sniping, is .300 Win Mag really that much better than .308 (yes - its certainly ballisticaly better, but by enough to justify this big of a change)? From 100-300yds, was .308 that bad? For 500+ yards, sure - go with a different caliber, but would .300 Win Mag be the first choice? There's a lot of other options at that point. I don't know - .300 is a good caliber and for long-range, it certainly beats the .308, but that's a huge change to make and as a result, lots of Military rifles will have to be changed out (and a number of the accessories won't work with the newer rifles either since the change means going from short action to long action). Just seems like a lot of change when most of the long-shot folks are already using something different than .308 anyways. The Army has a host of other antiquated arms/cartridges that they could be working on besides this one - just strikes me as odd that this is the first change they would make. I don't know - I'm a .308 fanboy, so I guess I'm biased - the .300 win mag is a great cartridge so I guess this is a good thing. [/QUOTE]
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