With a Dall ram taken at yards on Saturday, a 42" moose at 80 yards the next Saturday, it was a darned short season! 2 days hunting, 5 days packing meat. The stock got refinished and metal work beaded/blued just in time for hunting season, weekends only. I didn't "lose accuracy" - I gained consistency. Most anything then went into 1.25 inches for as many rounds as I cared to shoot. I thought about that for a few weeks, then glass-bedded the receiver and 2 " of bbl, free-floating the rest. The first 3 shot group cloverleafed, the second two nearly did, but 5 shots consistently went to 5-6" with the last two in each trial being random fliers. Cleaned the bore, and it didn't look half-bad - some rust for about 2 inches at the muzzle- but whacking the barrel back to 17 inches took care of that as well as the bulge. It went up in my rack and I went back to work on customers' guns.Ī couple weeks later I had slack time and took it down to work with it.įirst thing I noticed - this time! - was the bulge a couple inches back from the muzzle. I should have offered the dude $50 instead of $80 - he was out the door like a shot with the money. A new barrel self-installed and blued wouldn't be so bad financially if it came to that. The more heavily rusted barrel seemed to be mostly surface rust and not deeply pitted (it wasn't) but I couldn't see down the bore it was so bad, so I figured that for a write-off, but cleaned up it might make a 3MOA close-range, knock-about, self defense "boat gun" for the price. Figured the lightly pin-rusted receiver was good anyway, and the peeling stock could be refinished. 30-06 RU77 tang in pretty bad shape from - he said - wet basement storage. ![]() I also have never found the 180 grain C&C to be inadequate on one mule deer, and who knows how many caribou, a couple sheep, and at least two black bears I've used it on, from ranges of 10 to 300 yards I doubt one could tell a difference in effectiveness between a 220 and a 180, short barrel or not, with proper placement and reasonable range. If you don't count the times they've just scared the crap out of me. But I don't go around trying to poke holes in Griz or Brown Bears. But if you’re also looking for a conversion of caliber in inches to mm, the following chart should have what you’re looking for.Oh, I dunno - my stubby '06 seems to have been doing quite well for the last 35 years here in Alaska. You want to know how powerful each cartridge is. Cartridgeįor many of you, that’s what you’re looking for. ![]() On this chart, you’ll see the name of the cartridge, the caliber measurement for that cartridge, then an approximation of how big of an animal that cartridge could kill (much of which is highly debatable), and how much average energy the cartridge would produce at a typical hunting distance of 100 yards. 308 Winchester case can’t hold as much gun powder, so when it shoots the projectile, it won’t cause as much damage to the target. 308 Winchester case is much smaller than the case of a. Bullet designs are mostly interchangeable between cartridges of the same caliber. For example, a 180-grain GMX bullet could be loaded and fired out of either cartridge. 300 PRC can shoot the exact same bullet (projectile). 308) and sometimes they use other ways to measure so they can have a nice-sounding name.īoth the. Sometimes they round things off to make a nice marketing name (such as the. Don’t be confused by the names of cartridges. Now that you understand that, things will start to make sense. The word “bullet” only refers to the action projectile that is shot through the barrel and hits the target. A “Cartridge” refers to the entire firing unit: brass case, primer, gun powder, and projectile. Next, we need to understand what exactly a “cartridge” is, and how that differs from a bullet. Larger caliber bullets can cause more damage and generally weigh more however, caliber only describes the bullet size but provides no information as to the cartridge’s speed or power. ![]() 308″ means the bullet is physically wider than a bullet such as a. “Caliber” is a measurement in inches of the internal width of a firearm’s barrel, and consequently the width of the bullet. Let’s begin with understanding what caliber actually means. If you’re just getting started in learning about firearms, it can be really complicated to understand all the different calibers and what each cartridge is capable of.
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