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Ron,
My buddy reloads and has a shooting chronograph to measure bullet speed, so I consider him to be fairly knowledgeable. On the other hand, he has come up with some BS on occasion also. I don't know where he got this info.
A young man, that my buddy was teaching re-loading, requested that I record a
Military Channel documentary on a new .408 caliber sniper round that supposedly falls between the .50 and .308. I recorded and edited to disc, several programs on snipers ....but not a one of them had any mention of the .408. It exists though: (
.408 Chey Tac - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia ).
Since then, the young man has joined the army and is in Ft. Benning, GA (Basic Training) as we speak, er type. According to these TV programs, Ft. Benning is the home of a top notch sniper training center. One of the programs he specifically picked, and I recorded, is called
Top Sniper and is still coming up on the TV schedule last I looked.
With carefully selected re-loads, my buddy and the young man claimed to have had his ordinary light-barreled Remington bolt .30-06 down to a consistant 1 inch group at 100 yards. At any rate, I think he might be interested in applying for sniper training, down the road.
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