Caliber Battles

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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Caliber Battle: .308 Win. vs. .270 Win.

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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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Caliber Battle: 7mm-08 Remington vs. 6.5 Creedmoor

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Caliber Battle: 7mm-08 Remington vs. 6.5 Creedmoor

When hunters criticize the 6.5 Creedmoor as a copycat of older cartridges, they usually cite the 6.5 Swede, the .260 Remington, the .270 Winchester, or the 7mm-08 Remington. In this Caliber Battle, we’ll be taking a closer look at this last comparison. The 7mm-08 Remington (usually pronounced “seven...
Jordan Sillars Dec 14, 2022
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Caliber Battle: .450 Bushmaster vs. .45-70 Government

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Caliber Battle: .450 Bushmaster vs. .45-70 Government

Often attributed to King Solomon, this famous adage pretty well sums up cartridge development over the last 40 years or so: “What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.” Some modern cartridges have improved upon their predecessors, but...
Jordan Sillars Dec 2, 2022
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Caliber Battle: .300 Winchester Magnum vs. .308 Winchester

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Caliber Battle: .300 Winchester Magnum vs. .308 Winchester

For all the bickering between fans of the .308 Winchester and the 6.5 Creedmoor, both cartridges represent similar philosophies of ammunition optimization (hang with me; we’ll get to the .300 Win. Mag in a second). Both the .308 and the 6.5 seek a balance between power, size, and recoil energy, and...
Jordan Sillars Nov 17, 2022
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Caliber Battle: 5.56 NATO vs. 300 Blackout

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Caliber Battle: 5.56 NATO vs. 300 Blackout

The 5.56 NATO and the 300 Blackout might seem like an unnatural matchup. The Blackout shoots a large, .30-caliber bullet at speeds ranging from moderate to molasses. The 5.56 fires a light, .22-caliber bullet faster than anything except turbo-charged varmint rounds. Like Manny Pacquiao taking on...
Jordan Sillars Nov 2, 2022
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Caliber Battle: .308 Winchester vs. .30-06 Springfield

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Caliber Battle: .308 Winchester vs. .30-06 Springfield

In some ways, the United States military decided this Caliber Battle in 1957. In that year, the .308 Winchester replaced the .30-06 Springfield in American military arsenals, and the NATO version of the Winchester, the 7.62x51mm, is still in service around the world. But what’s good for military...
Jordan Sillars Oct 19, 2022
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