Comparing 6.5 Grendel to .260 Remington

[bwaites]

And so it seems LR has finally ushered us into the era of the "phased plasma rifle in the 40 watt range"? Just how much less power DOES it consume?

John

It consumes 10 grains less power (sic) per shot, which is equivalent to 100 plasma/decajoules. Therefore, it is hermetically guaranteed to singe less than the phased plasma rifles now available!

[NugginFutz]

I'm not sure, but assuming no better than 20% efficiency, probably about 800 watts of input power.

[nincomp]

I am done playing with plasma rifles. I bought one of the early models (before the new MR.FUSION power packs were available). I also was limited to stay near roads because the 872 car batteries needed to power it are a pain to move around. As it turns out, I only shot it once. I tripped and fell and the damned thing went off.

You probably know that on several of the NASA moon missions the astronauts left behind mirror arrays so scientists on earth could bounce light of them for some reason or 'nother.

Well, this is what happened, no shit: That there plasma burst hit one of those mirrors thingies. That mirror must have been messed up by one of those Air Force guys that live in the secret base up there (I ain't supposed to know about it ...but I do). Well, that mirror, thank goodness, bounced that beam back to Earth about 15 miles from here (If it had toasted me, I'd been real mad). 'Course I didn't know anything about that at the time.

Well, that night on the TV they had a big story about some farmer who said that some of them space aliens probed him (I won't tell you where them probes went). Then they went up into space and fired some kind of super-duper raygun at his farm. Turns out that damned plasma blast ricocheted off of one of those moon-mirrors and blowed up a barn, three out-buildings, seven beat up old cars hidden in the tall grass and - now I ain't kiddin' - that farmers favorite outhouse.

That was when I buried the damned thing in the back yard.

Now I told you that story so's I can tell you this one....
That farmer said that he wasn't gonna let them space aliens probe him again, so he went out and got hizzself a brand new riflegun. And guess what it was. That's right, a 260 with a 16 inch barrel.
How's that for a coincidence!

[cory]

^^^^^^bahahaha roflmao Silly farmer. Why didn't he just get a Grendel.

[NugginFutz]

I am done playing with plasma rifles. ...

Now I told you that story so's I can tell you this one....
That farmer said that he wasn't gonna let them space aliens probe him again, so he went out and got hizzself a brand new riflegun. And guess what it was. That's right, a 260 with a 16 inch barrel.
How's that for a coincidence!

Way to return a hijacked thread back to the topic, and be entertaining at the same time.

Nicely done.

[nincomp]

I mostly just like short, handy rifles. I know with .308, going shorter than 18 inches really drops velocity and makes huge fireballs.

The 260 will likely be worse, since it is based off the .308 but has less volume inside the barrel for the burning of the powder.

It is telling that in the article about the short-barreled .260, the owner wanted to put a sound suppressor on it.

[Rambozo]

I say get the one that gets the job done without being anymore than you need it to be. In a small handy rifle, little intermediate cartridges are nice. I say do Grendel.

If you need the ballistics, then do .260. The .260 uses a more common bolt face, and uses .308 headspace gauges. So if you already got those parts, then something based off of that case head would probably be a good idea. As far as that goes, there are the BR cartridges too.