How does it differ from the .400 Legend?
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What difference does it make if it's straight wall or not?
Some states only allow straight walled cartridges for deer hunting.
But why though? What is their reasoning behind this?
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You know. "Safety". Same reason some only allow shotguns. Because other cartridges are "high powered snapper raffles and nobody needs that". I had the misfortune of living in Illinois for one hunting season. The level of stupid should not be underestimated.
Crowded hunting areas, dense population. Straight wall cartridges generally have less range than bottleneck cartridges, or that is their line of thinking anyway. Same reason some management areas require shotgun only.
I suspect that a brush gun what you might call a "thumper" that fires a very heavy bullet at 1800 to 2400 ft./second...
Is MORE DANGEROUS to people who may be half a mile to 1 mile away in the woods...
Compared to a bottleneck rifle round that shoots a much lighter bullet at around 3000 ft./s velocity and has a soft point or expanding bullet design....
..IF, and only if, The bullets fired from either kind of gun will strike the ground
and / or tree limbs and bushes
before ricocheting away.
IN CONTRAST, if you're talking about shooting up in the air at 45° angle and having the bullet come down and strike somebody or some occupied building or occupied vehicle without any interfering vegetation or ground contact...
... only then would the higher velocity and better aerodynamics of the modern bottlenecked rifle round really matter.
Is MORE DANGEROUS to people who may be half a mile to 1 mile away in the woods...
Compared to a bottleneck rifle round that shoots a much lighter bullet at around 3000 ft./s velocity and has a soft point or expanding bullet design....
..IF, and only if, The bullets fired from either kind of gun will strike the ground
and / or tree limbs and bushes
before ricocheting away.
IN CONTRAST, if you're talking about shooting up in the air at 45° angle and having the bullet come down and strike somebody or some occupied building or occupied vehicle without any interfering vegetation or ground contact...
... only then would the higher velocity and better aerodynamics of the modern bottlenecked rifle round really matter.
Because heavier and slower bullets lose a smaller percentage of their energy when muscling their way through obstructions like bushes grass and leaves,
compared to high velocity bullets which will often fragment...
... and even if they don't fragment,
they're much lighter to start with which means if you destabilize them and they start tumbling they're going to lose their velocity so much faster due to air resistance.
compared to high velocity bullets which will often fragment...
... and even if they don't fragment,
they're much lighter to start with which means if you destabilize them and they start tumbling they're going to lose their velocity so much faster due to air resistance.
Not to be that guy, but .41 caliber has been out forever. I think you meant "cartridge".
