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The new 30 Remington AR’s specs. real close to a .30 BR - except for a .500″ base dia. instead of the BR’s (and the 30-06’s, and the .308’s, and a pile of other cartridge’s) .473″ dia.
Any bets on how long until we see one necked down to 6.5 or 6mm by some tactical competitors?
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There’s a post over at Accurate Shooter about overbore cartridges with an accompanying chart purporting to list cartridges in order of their “overboreness”. I commented:
Volume/area is a poor proxy for “overboreness”. I haven’t thought it through yet but since a .50 bmg is basically a scaled up ‘06 it should equal a 30?06 in [...]
It’s National Ammo Day and the FBI, not wanting to be left out, gives Winchester Ammunition the largest ammunition contract ever in the history of federal law enforcement - worth up to $54 million.
Bouquet is an odd little thing.
I gather it’s two UCLA art students’ project. It’s vaguely anti-gun but it doesn’t seem like it ever got going as a project or as an antigun statement. If you navigate amongst it’s four main pages you’ll find what appears to be a positive review of Eldorado’s Starfire [...]
