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The reduced load is only 13% shorter in range than the full power load. The main effect of the reduced load is to drop recoil from 15.2 ft. lbs. (standard load) to 10.4 ft.lbs. This 32% reduction in recoil makes the .260 feel similar to a full power .243 Winchester. .270 Winchester.The result is Fusion Lite ammunition, available at this writing in calibers .270 Winchester, .308 Winchester and .30-06 Springfield. These Fusion Lite loads compete directly with Remington's Managed Recoil loads, that company's attempt to accomplish the same 50% recoil reduction. Less recoil is a noble goal, since anyone can shoot more ...As fro the rifle, the X-Bolt Mountain Pro Long Range just might be the best X-Bolt I've ever shot. In 6.8 Western with a 26-inch barrel, the rifle weighs 6 pounds 12 ounces. The carbon stock, Cerakote barrel, and crisp trigger bring custom features to a stock rifle. A cushy butt pad and the Recoil Hawg muzzle brake take the bite out the gun ...Felt recoil is what the hunter responds to in terms of flinching and jerking the trigger. Recoil is measurable in exact foot pounds of recoil energy but it is all subjective to the hunter who is either sensitive or tolerant to felt recoil. Recoil is not even in my thoughts when hammering hogs with whatever gun I am using.Dhuʻl-Q. 7, 1436 AH ... A standard 1 1/4oz pheasant load is about 25 foot pounds in the same weight gun. According to chuckhawks.com recoil table that's a similar ...Handgun Trajectory Table. In order to hit a distant target a handgun must be correctly sighted-in, and to accomplish that the shooter must have some working knowledge of the bullet's trajectory. Sighting-in a pistol to hit a certain number of inches high at 25, 50, or 100 yards (or meters) maximizes the point blank range of the gun and ...By Chuck Hawks. Introduction This article is about the handguns and handgun cartridges most suitable for hunting. I am limiting the discussion to conventional handguns and cartridges. ... It is possible for most shooters to learn to handle a .357 and its 8-9 ft. lbs. of recoil energy, although it may take time and lots of practice. Mastering a ...Check out the Chuck Hawks recoil table. It will ... 270 Win. is several pounds heavier and I use around 11-12 grs. ... I've felt that my WSM's recoil is more of a ...Remington's 360 Buckhammer, easily a 200 yard cartridge, takes care of things quite nicely. Right now, the 360 Buckhammer has been announced in two Core-Lokt loadings: a 2200 fps 200 grain round (.181 static BC), and a 2400 fps 180 grain round (.178 static BC). Sticker price is $36.99 for either round for a box of 20 cartridges.Free Recoil Energy (Ft-lbs) Recoil Velocity (FPS) Avg Bullet Weight: Avg Muzzle Velocity.378 Weatherby Magnum: 60.68: 19.38: 293: 3,040.30-378 Weatherby Magnum: 45.78: 18.39: 205: 3,205.458 Win …The recoil values are 10.2 foot pounds of recoil force and a recoil velocity of 9.2 feet per second. The maximum load for the same bullet shows 3229 feet per second which results in 17.1 foot pounds of recoil at 11.7 feet per second. All of the above Youth Loads offer a remarkable reduction of recoil by about 40% with well over a 200 yard MPBR.The .28 Nosler should fit standard length magnum actions with magnum diameter bolts. However, due to the cartridges very fat body (the case head is .550 inches, with very little body taper) an extra wide magazine is required. The rebated rim is .534 inches inch diameter to allow use with belted magnum bolt faces. The shoulder angle is 35-degrees.By Chuck Hawks. Having spent the time and effort to devise a rifle cartridge killing power formula that has a positive correlation with actual results in the field, it seemed appropriate to use that formula to compare the killing power of various hunting rifle cartridges and loads. ... However, the Remington Managed Recoil .30-30 125 grain/2175 ...The 6.5x55 SE. The 6.5x55 is one of the great worldwide hunting cartridges. It offers excellent killing power, adequately flat trajectory, and moderate recoil. A best seller in Scandinavia, it is also popular all across Europe, Africa, Australia, and the New World. European loads for the 6.5x55 tend to be hotter than the standard U.S. loads.The .270's ballistic advantage comes with a downside, of course. The Winchester produces about 17 foot-pounds (ft.-lbs.) of recoil energy while the 7mm-08 only produces about 13 ft.-lbs. That's according to Chuck Hawks' recoil table with each cartridge using a 140-grain bullet fired from an eight-pound rifle.Note: For a much expanded version of this table showing a great many more cartridges and loads including British, European, wildcat, obsolescent American and proprietary calibers, see the Expanded Optimal Game Range Table. If you use the Lyman Reloading Manual, 47th Edition or the BigGameInfo ballistic calculator program on the Internet you have probably noticed that there is a column that ...By Randy Wakeman. When attempting to compare autoloading shotgun actions, it is easy to break them down into two broad categories: Recoil (short and long) and Gas operated. Further, there are compensating actions and non-compensating actions. Whether an auto shotgun is called a gas, recoil, inertia, or whatever, it really isn�t the loading ...By Chuck Hawks. The single most important thing about any shotgun is that it fit the user. The same is true of rifles, but it is dramatically more important with a shotgun. ... The effects of recoil are cumulative, and shooters tend to shoot a shotgun many more times in a day on the practice field that they would a rifle at the range. So again ...Handgun ballistics tables show bullet weights of 180, 210, 240, 275, and 300 grains for the .44 Magnum. The most popular and generally the most useful remains the 240 grain jacketed bullet at about 1180 fps with 741 ft. lbs. of muzzle energy from a 4" revolver barrel. The figures from a rifle barrel are 1760 fps and 1650 ft. lbs.30-30 is the lightest of the three you mention, but 6.5 CM and 7mm-08 are both no more than medium weight. I consider 6.5 CM and 7mm-08 to be the two best for a light (5.5 lbs + scope) deer rifle. (I slightly prefer the 7mm-08, but whatever.) Here are the foot-pound calculations shooting all three "typical-ish" loads from a 7.0 lb rifle.The 6mm Creedmoor is a short action cartridge. Its case holds 50 grains of water, compared to 54 grains of water for the .243 Winchester and 47 grains for the 6mm Lapua. The rim diameter is the usual .473". The case head diameter is .470" and the body diameter behind the shoulder is .462", so there is very little body taper to ease extraction.A rifle recoil table by "Chuck Hawks" shows the following: .444 Marlin (265 at 2200) with 22.1 ft/lbs of recoil. 45-70 (300 at 1800) with 23.9 ft/lbs of recoil. Your reputation is what men say about you on your tombstone, your character is what the angels proclaim about you before the throne of God! Texas Shooter.

Chuck Hawks shares his knowledge about accurate hunting rifles. Hunting Rifle ... For the master shot with a trajectory table developed for his specific rifle and load, a high quality rangefinder, a solid rest, and shooting an ultra-long range cartridge like the .240 to .300 Weatherby Magnums, .264 Winchester Magnum, or 7mm Remington Ultra Mag ...Remington claims that the ballistics of the 7mm SAUM equal those of the popular 7mm Rem. Mag. and exactly the same claim is made for the 7mm WSM. These claims are valid if the short magnum cartridges are fired in 24 inch barrels, the same length as the barrels of most 7mm Rem. Mag. rifles. In shorter barrels, performance declines dramatically.By Chuck Hawks. Marble's Peep Tang Sight on Model 1873 rifle. Illustration courtesy of Marble Arms. ... This is an optical advantage, but if used on rifles generating heavy recoil, especially when shooting uphill and/or not holding the rifle securely, the sight can be driven back into the shooter's eye. This is not a problem with rimfire ...Remington built the 360 Buckhammer using a blown-out .30-30 Winchester case loaded with either a 180- or 200-grain .358-caliber bullet. They say the closest thing to compare it to is the .30-30 ...As Chuck Hawks notes in his great recoil table, the .223 Rem. produces about half the felt recoil of the .243 Win. Winner: .223 Rem. .223 Rem. Versatility vs. …

By Chuck Hawks. The .350 Remington Magnum was the first true short magnum cartridge, and it was introduced in the mid-1960's. ... The recoil energy of such as load is around 20 ft. lbs., managable for a medium bore rifle. Note: A full length article about the .350 Rem. Mag. and .35 Whelen can be found on the Rifle Cartridge Page.An article at Chuck Hawks Site *** Caliber: Bullet: Lbs of Recoil 9.5 lb gun: Lbs Recoil 8.5 lb gun: Velocity: Energy at 100 yards: 243: 70: 6 : ... actually reduces recoil and increases bullet energy at 100 yards. In the chart above, the 2 bullets listed for the 243 produce 1426 lbs and 1328 lbs of energy at 100 yards respectively ...…

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