It is a weird day dream.
My first rifle was a 225 Winchester.
Not the fastest .224 gun ever, but pretty impressive to a 12 year old almost 30 years ago.
Imagine my shock, 2 years later, when I bought, very unusual and uncommon at the time, an SP1.
All the lore of the spinning, tumbling, man killing M16 and my first thought on eyeballing the ammo was,
Holy shit! This is just a varmit round. And not even a good one.
Sure enough, my 225 launched 55gr bullets four or five hundred FPS faster than my SP1.
My 30 06 launched 150 grains 100 FPS faster than my buddies .308. Then my 270 did it about 100 FPS faster than my 06. In the woods at short ranges I was cool with a 30 30.
But those early impressions made me partial to trajectories/rounds pushing 3000 FPS,
A fan of those even faster,
But more along the lines of tolerant of 30 30 velocities.
“Where weapons may not be carried, it is well to carry weapons.”
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