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- Prince George, BC
just browsing through Marlins website and they have a new caliber/rifle coming out in spring 2007. it's chambered in .308 Marlin. suposed to be balistcaly similar to the .308 win. It's suposedly the highest velocity production cartridge designed for lever rifles.
Here's a couple paragraphs I took from Guns & Ammo
The new .308 Marlin Express cartridge that Emary and his team developed has the same neck and case shoulders as the .307. But on the .308 Marlin Express, the case is shortened by .115 inch, the shoulders are moved back accordingly, and the cartridge case was given slightly more body taper to aid in extraction. As a result, the cartridge has about 10 percent less case capacity than a standard .308 Winchester.
"We're running approximately two grains less powder than what you would use in a comparable bullet weight in a .308," says Emary, "and yet we're producing the same downrange ballistics. That's primarily due to the bullet, and that's why we shortened the case--to get a longer-ogive bullet into it.
With its initial 165-grain softpoint boattail loading, the .308 Flex-Tip bullet leaves a 24-inch barrel of a Marlin XLR at 2,700 fps. Zeroed two inches high at 100 yards, it is dead on at 200 yards and drops 25 inches at 400 yards--exactly like a .308 Winchester
"The big difference here is that we have been used to thinking in terms of 100- to 200-yard shooting with 'hunting type' accuracy," says Tony Aeschliman, public relations and marketing manager for Marlin Firearms. "Now we have a lever action that is a 300- to 400-yard gun, and everything tightens.
here's a pic.
so what do you guys think??
I think It looks very promising and I may just be one of the first in line to pick one up.
Here's a couple paragraphs I took from Guns & Ammo
The new .308 Marlin Express cartridge that Emary and his team developed has the same neck and case shoulders as the .307. But on the .308 Marlin Express, the case is shortened by .115 inch, the shoulders are moved back accordingly, and the cartridge case was given slightly more body taper to aid in extraction. As a result, the cartridge has about 10 percent less case capacity than a standard .308 Winchester.
"We're running approximately two grains less powder than what you would use in a comparable bullet weight in a .308," says Emary, "and yet we're producing the same downrange ballistics. That's primarily due to the bullet, and that's why we shortened the case--to get a longer-ogive bullet into it.
With its initial 165-grain softpoint boattail loading, the .308 Flex-Tip bullet leaves a 24-inch barrel of a Marlin XLR at 2,700 fps. Zeroed two inches high at 100 yards, it is dead on at 200 yards and drops 25 inches at 400 yards--exactly like a .308 Winchester
"The big difference here is that we have been used to thinking in terms of 100- to 200-yard shooting with 'hunting type' accuracy," says Tony Aeschliman, public relations and marketing manager for Marlin Firearms. "Now we have a lever action that is a 300- to 400-yard gun, and everything tightens.
here's a pic.
so what do you guys think??
I think It looks very promising and I may just be one of the first in line to pick one up.
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