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JasonMPD
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Great price on a weird caliber...
JasonMPD
Posts: 6,583 Senior Member
CDNN is selling Browning A-Bolts in .325 WSM for something like $399 or 499. Giving them away. It's temping if nor for the caliber.
I remember seeing this caliber on the shelves back in the WSM and WSSM craze days. Sounds like a thumper of a cartridge.
I remember seeing this caliber on the shelves back in the WSM and WSSM craze days. Sounds like a thumper of a cartridge.
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That would have been a handy rifle.
They originally WERE going to make the 338 wsm, I've heard dies were available before the cartridge was scrapped in favor of the 8mm. Winchester just couldn't get 338 Win Mag speeds on the longer 225 gr or 250's. I still think they should have gone 264, 300, 338 and 458 wsm. Introduce the same lineup as the original Win Mag family.
That would have been cool.
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$399? I would be interested in one as a .500 SJS donor.
It's an 8mm Short Mag. The Price is Right! It's a fine rifle. You reload. Brass is available and they make some decent 8mm bullets nowadays. Did I mention the price is right? What's not to love?
So it's not the most popular cartridge on this forum. 8mms are good killers of game. I have a plain vanila Mauser in 8x57 that kills anything an 06 will. I wasn't impressed with it using 150 grain bullets but 170-180 will take anything on this continent. And for the rifle you'd be getting and the price is probably $200-$300 below retail. Also later, if you find you just can't live with that cartridge you can rebarrel to something you want. In that case think of it as a donor.
Son that's somebody with nothing to do with his time but keep me in trouble with mom.
I think he means the value at $599 isn't great.
If you don't reload, it is probably cheaper to buy something else in a more common caliber.
At $399, it would be a steal.
...on paper the .325 WSM doesn't look all that impressive w/ a relatively low BC 200gr. bullet @ about 2800fps., but consider Winchester 220gr. Power Point factory loads are advertised @ 2840fps., you're pushing pretty close to .338 WM (210-225gr.) ballistics. When you can load 220gr. Sierra GameKings w/ a BC of 0.524 to 2800-2900fps., you've got a pretty good 600+yd. thumper w/ considerably less recoil & a lot less muzzle blast than any .338 WM I've ever shot. The .325 WSM probably isn't for everybody, but like the .41 RM, it's a damngood round in its' own right... (some 200yd. groups, the second pic is 2 3shot groups, pasted the 1st one, shot the second)
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You have a dollar
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You need a ton of horse manure!
Do you really need a rifle in an oddball chambering?
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Jerry