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    Quote Originally Posted by Tussock View Post
    I'm going to go with that.

    It's popular because it's abundant. Not because it's any good.

    What I find interesting is how uniquely terrible it is. If you put it among the rounds we have today, it's right at the sweet spot of crapness. That dead place where the velocities are low, the BC is impossible to get above awful and still fit the action and it has a lot of recoil for its meager performance.
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    lt's a shame they didn't go with the British .280
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