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To: Dead Corpse

OK, I understand the caliber (30) but will a .308 round fire out of a .308 Win rifle and vis versa? When I called Wain Roberts they said that they are different rounds and that certain guns called for either .308 or .308 Win.


52 posted on 11/09/2006 7:57:17 AM PST by Hazcat (Live to party, work to afford it.)
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To: Hazcat
.308 round fire out of a .308 Win rifle and vis versa?

Nope. Same round. The NATO designation is 7.62x51. Wikipedia article isn't bad.

You'll find some mil-sup brass that has a thicker base section on it and a slightly different neck sizing on it that could cause problems with finicky platforms that have been highly "dialed in". SAAMI spec gages will show the difference, but for a standrad hunting rifle, you'll never notice a difference. For most .308 battle rifles, like the FAL, it'll eat pretty much any .308 round you feed it.

If you are setting up a bench gun, sniper rig, or extreme accuracy rifle, you'll be sizing and trimming your own brass to the .0001+/-" anyway and the mil-surp thick brass can actually be re-loaded more times without failure of the case. If you are shooting factory brass, you won't get peak accuracy out of your set up. Again, assuming a ton of variables.

Google it up. There are tons of articles out there.

53 posted on 11/09/2006 8:08:33 AM PST by Dead Corpse (Anyone who needs to be persuaded to be free, doesn't deserve to be.)
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