Have always heard it mentioned but don’t know the details. Why is the belt bad?
It's not.
Have always heard it mentioned but don’t know the details. Why is the belt bad?
It’s used for setting head spacing. it harder to control when reloading than the shoulder. Also serves no purpose anymore, why the newer chamberings removed it. in the end, why have it as it does nothing and makes reloading a little more difficult. Does it cause any problems, not really.Have always heard it mentioned but don’t know the details. Why is the belt bad?
Have always heard it mentioned but don’t know the details. Why is the belt bad?
For my needs 308 or 300 Win Mag.
Neither are going away any time soon and will always have better ammo selections than anything else.
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Totally agree. The 7mm for me was my #2. I killed a few dozen elk and a pile of blackmail and mule deer over the years with one. I switched to a 300WM only because it found an identical rifle in stainless. I switched and now my 7mm is my back up.Less powder and recoil for similar performance. No belt. Not much really. But in all reality there is very little effective difference in hunting cartridges across a very broad range for 90+% of uses. Yet here we are all in another cartridge debate thread. The 7 rem mag has had a good run and more than likely will continue to. In terms of separation from where the market and cartridge design has been been going for some time now though, the belted cartridges are the most antiquated.
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Maybe…but none are .30 caliberI don’t know, most shops seem to have a bigger variety of creedmoor options than 308, and especially 300WM.
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I don’t know, most shops seem to have a bigger variety of creedmoor options than 308, and especially 300WM.
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Ummm, not to get caught up in this slam fest, but expansion and penetration are functions of velocity, provided it’s a normal weight hunting bullet.Or the hornady guys would say energy delivery on target is irrelevant to how the bullet performs. Expansion just magically happens? Penetration just magically happens without any energy?
I agree with this 100%. There is more .308 than any other cartridge in every sporting goods store in my area.Not around here. Cabelas for example has 2 full shelves about 12-15’ long that are nothing but 308 & 300 Win Mag.
About 1/2-3/4 of one shelf for 6.5CM.
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It’s physics man- a TON of better cartridges out their that will deliver vastly superior performance in literally every metrics. I’m not saying your 308 is not lethal….. it certainly is. But the round is dead, when we compared it to more modern designs. Definitely not a top choice for THE one and done rifle to hunt with as was the op’s question. Can you concede to these points?
I've also seen a ton of 308. I just assumed because less guys are shooting it. Ten years ago most guys I knew were deer hunting here with either a 7mm mag, 30-06 or 308. Now it's flipped to where most guys (especially newer hunters) are using 6.5CM. Go spend a bunch on a custom and then watch a guy with a Ruger American stacking them in with Hornady whitetail ammo, does kinda make you scratch your head.I agree with this 100%. There is more .308 than any other cartridge in every sporting goods store in my area.
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