05-11-2011, 08:53 PM
Wow! While you guys look for the magical bullet and cartridge combination that will match .308 ballistics from a 14 inch barrel the hordes have stormed the gates and overtaken you! LOL!!
Good luck with this search, because its simply impossible. You cannot launch a projectile from a shorter tube and match velocity and external ballistics unless you increase powder capacity. Increasing powder capacity increases weight, but more importantly, increases recoil, putting you back at square one!
I'm all for improving what is available to our Joes, but this is an impossible task without changing the paradigm and using some other type of cartridge. It simply won't and can't happen using traditional brass and bullets.
What you are proposing is a shift as radical as the shift from black powder to smokeless.
Good luck with this search, because its simply impossible. You cannot launch a projectile from a shorter tube and match velocity and external ballistics unless you increase powder capacity. Increasing powder capacity increases weight, but more importantly, increases recoil, putting you back at square one!
I'm all for improving what is available to our Joes, but this is an impossible task without changing the paradigm and using some other type of cartridge. It simply won't and can't happen using traditional brass and bullets.
What you are proposing is a shift as radical as the shift from black powder to smokeless.
You seek escape from pain. We seek the achievement of happiness. You exist for the sake of avoiding punishment. We exist for the sake of earning rewards. Threats will not make us function; fear is not our incentive. It is not death that we wish to avoid, but life that we wish to live. - John Galt