Thread: 30 cal projectiles

Greetings All,
On the matter of twists in .308 rifles I believe that the military used a 1 in 12 inch twist due to the light projectile when they developed the 7.62 x 51 in the late 1940's and early 1950's and some commercial manufacturers but by no means all followed suit. My old Remington .308 has a 10 twist.
1952 was a different place where few if any had a range finder and practically no projectile had a boat tail. Poor quality projectiles at the time often shot better in slow twist barrels (no longer a problem today) and lighter projectiles at higher velocity flattened trajectory for longer point blank ranges. It was a different time. The average Nimrod from 1952 would be gob smacked with the kit available today. An average week end hunter in NZ would have had an iron sighted .303.
Regards Grandpamac.