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Is the 6.5 Creedmoor or the .308 Win. better for long-range hunting? How powerful is the .300 Win. Mag. really, and what’s the best straight-wall cartridge? Whether those questions make your blood boil or you’re more confused than ever, you’ve come to the right place. Caliber Battles cut through the noise to answer the hottest cartridge questions—and hopefully teach you something you didn’t know along the way.
Is the 6.5 Creedmoor or the .308 Win. better for long-range hunting? How powerful is the .300 Win. Mag. really, and what’s the best straight-wall cartridge? Whether those questions make your blood boil or you’re more confused than ever, you’ve come to the right place. Caliber Battles cut through the noise to answer the hottest cartridge questions—and hopefully teach you something you didn’t know along the way.
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.357 Magnum vs. .45 ACP
If you asked a random group of hunters to name big-bore handgun cartridges, I’d stake a not-insignificant amount of money that the .357 Magnum and the .45 ACP would be at the top of most people’s list. They aren’t the most powerful, but they’ve been around for a solid century and they remain widely...
Jordan Sillars
Aug 10, 2023
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Caliber Battle: 6.5 Creedmoor vs. 6.5x55 Swedish
When the 6.5 Creedmoor began gaining popularity in the early 2010s, one criticism stood out among many others: “Hornady’s new cartridge is just a copycat of the much older 6.5x55 Swedish.” Six-and-a-half millimeter cartridges have been popular among European hunters for decades, and like sweet-and...
Jordan Sillars
Jul 6, 2023
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Caliber Battle: .458 Lott vs. .416 Rigby
If you were inspired to take an African safari after listening to last week’s episode of the MeatEater Podcast, join the club. Roger Hurt and Morgan Potter’s stories were enough to inspire anyone to burn two weeks of vacation time chasing Cape buffalo on the plains of Tanzania.
While this kind of...
Jordan Sillars
Jun 15, 2023
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Caliber Battle: 7mm Rem. Mag. vs. .28 Nosler
Billed as the most powerful 7mm cartridge on the market, the .28 Nosler made quite a splash when it hit gun stores in 2015. Nosler promised that its new offering would modernize the 7mm category by taking advantage of all the latest and greatest in firearm and bullet technology, and now several...
Jordan Sillars
May 18, 2023
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Firearms
Caliber Battle: .300 Winchester Short Magnum vs. .30-06 Springfield
Spend any time in the Wonderful World of Firearms™ and you quickly discover that gun debates are really debates about tradeoffs.
Do you want an ultra-powerful cartridge or one that’s comfortable to shoot? Do you want a lightweight handgun or one that can carry 21 rounds? Do you want a super-accurate...
Jordan Sillars
May 4, 2023
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What’s the Difference Between .223 Remington and 5.56 NATO?
“They’re totally interchangeable,” I heard a gun clerk tell a customer purchasing a rifle chambered in .223 Remington. The customer had asked whether he could fire 5.56 NATO from his new rifle, and the helpful youngster assured him that since the rounds are dimensionally identical, he wouldn’t have...
Jordan Sillars
Apr 20, 2023
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Caliber Battle: 6.5 PRC vs. .308 Winchester
The .308 Winchester is sick…sick and tired of being compared to younger, hotter 6.5mm cartridges. First, it was the 6.5 Creedmoor. Now, the 6.5 Precision Rifle Cartridge (PRC) is threatening to steal Winchester’s role, and camo-clad casting directors around the world are considering making the...
Jordan Sillars
Apr 14, 2023
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Caliber Battle: .357 Magnum vs. .44 Remington Magnum
For a large portion of the 20th century, the .357 Magnum and the .44 Remington Magnum were the undisputed heavyweight champions of the handgun cartridge world. The .357 held that title for an impressive 20 years between 1935 and 1955, while the .44 Rem. Mag. was the king from its release in 195...
Jordan Sillars
Mar 31, 2023
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Caliber Battle: 7mm-08 Remington vs. .270 Winchester
With manageable recoil, reasonable cost, and the ballistic capability to take everything from groundhogs to moose–it’s hard to imagine two more effective and popular cartridges than the .270 Winchester and the 7mm-08 Remington.
I’ll say at the outset that this race is a barn burner. It’s like a time...
Jordan Sillars
Mar 9, 2023
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Caliber Battle: 6.5 Creedmoor vs. .270 Winchester
Separated by only 0.013 inches of bullet diameter, the 6.5 Creedmoor and the .270 Winchester make an obvious Caliber Battle matchup. Both are used widely by hunters from Alaska to Alabama, both throw similarly weighted bullets traveling similar velocities, and both are chambered in a variety of...
Jordan Sillars
Feb 3, 2023
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Caliber Battle: 7mm Rem. Mag. vs. .30-06 Springfield
In his excellent handbook, “Cartridges of the World,” Frank C. Barnes describes the .30-06 Springfield with the kind of reverence usually reserved for religion, mom’s cooking, and secret hunting spots.
“The .30-06 is undoubtedly the most flexible, useful, all-around big game cartridge available to...
Jordan Sillars
Jan 5, 2023
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Caliber Battle: .308 Win. vs. .270 Win.
Ask any American hunter to name his top three big game cartridges and chances are good that at least one of those will be the .308 Winchester or .270 Winchester.
Winchester launched the .270 Win. all the way back in 1925 for the Model 54 bolt-action rifle. At the time it offered better long-range...
Jordan Sillars
Dec 26, 2022
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