[Paladin2]

I thought they had some bolt action .50 BMG rifles?

[RC one]

switching to .300 Win mag! woohoo! That’s change we can believe in right there.

[equalitybeforethelaw]

Overkill. Looks like the belly shooters want something they don’t need. No adult leadership. Shooting 300 win mag will burn the barrels out in around 2,000 to 2,500 rounds. Contrast that to 7.62 boat tail and you are looking at a barrel life of 5 - 6,000 rounds. Most of our shooting is done in urban areas, less than 300 meters. There very few opportunities to identify and engage a target at 1,000 meters. The probabilities of hitting the target at 1,000 is very poor. Big waste of money. By SR-25s and keep the M-24 as is.

[JoeProBono]

[taxcontrol]

My program was to equip with an AR-15 lower with swappable uppers.

.223 barrel for out to 300 m
.308 barrel for up to 800 m
.338 Federal for 800+ m

Sniper kit only has to carry two extra receivers and another 100 to 200 rounds. BTW, most snipers I have spoken to about this arrangement say “pass ... too much weight”

I mention all of this because the “obvious” solution is often not acceptable. The reason .308 was chosen was be cause it had good kill vs range. I should point out that you can lengthen the .308 barrel and get .300 win mag performance out of a .308. This is how the M44 (7.62x57r) is able to achieve good performance. Though as a new system, normally only held 2 to 3 MOA. Might have to repackage into a bull pup to keep the length manageable though.

However, special situations require special solutions.

[MCF]

Ok Guys help me with this one; I thought the m-24 was a 40x variant with a short action and a 1 in 12 twist.
If you are going to use a 300 Win Mag with a 220, or heavier, bullet would it not be best to use a Magnum length receiver so you could set the bullet out longer then the standard 300 and have a 1 in 9 twist barrel.

[oldenuff2no]

I doubt seriously that the actions on the existing remingtons, mdl 700’s, are of the right length for the 300 mag cartridge. The existing rifles shot the 7.62 NATO/308 Winchester round. Weapons for this round are usually always built on a short action. The 300 win mag takes a mag length, longer, action. They will not simply re-barrel or re-chamber the existing rifles they will replace them with a new rifle.
This is not brain surgery. Any gun specialist or gun smith can attest to this fact.

[bmwcyle]

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