02-07-2015, 02:45 PM
smokinghole Wrote:I'm not a coolaid drinker. I ended up here and looking on three other forums about information about this cartridge. I ended up here thinking it'd have the most information but I quickly began to realize that this forum generally is a fan of a specific chamber design over it just being a cartridge. It was the performance numbers of a bullet and cartridge combo that attracted me to this round not a throat design. Then due to the massive amount of bickering on both sides of the issue I almost said "screw the grendel" plus my modest budget had an influence.
I for the life of me cannot understand why a chamber design needs to be protected and celebrated. There are swiss army knives out there with 100 things on the knife. Sure sometimes the screw driver on the knife is convenient but there are times you would much rather a real screw driver. Sure the magnifying glass is possibly convenient but a real magnifying glass would be better, and so on. Just because something was designed a certain way at a certain time for certain reasons doesn't mean it always has to be that way. Improvements on products can be an advancement to a more complicated design or a more simple design, it happens both ways. Sometimes an "improvement" isn't viewed as an improvement to everyone and that's fine. I'm not saying the compound throat is anything good or bad to me, I just didn't buy one because I got a deal on something else.
I've read back through this to see what has you in such a tizzy... A few people explained to you why THEY stay with the SAAMI chamber but there seem to be more that say they shoot both or that they've had both in the past. The LBC is a fine chamber and you will be happy. Chill out man, no need to justify your decision. You got a great deal on a great barrel.