Thread: New .27 calibre, .277 Fury..

Originally Posted by grandpamac

Greetings All,
I think I am with Max Headroom in suffering from new cartridge overload. It seems like yesterday that I spotted the .350 Legend. This seems to be a stretched version of the .351 Winchester Self Loading, complete with odd ball case head size and projectile diameter, developed to game some arcane US game laws. Now we have the .277 Fury with a fancy hybrid, read two piece, case that produces its ballistics due to pressures of 80,000 psi. Cases with a stainless steel head and replaceable brass bodies were offered to hand loaders a number of years back in the US. Disappeared without trace after a year or two. Still in this post Obama US firearms sales slump it may keep the tills ringing. I wonder how much the cartridges cost. I think I will go out to the shed and load a few .303 cartridges until my head clears.
Grandpamac.

I have to agree @grandpamac. How many cartridges does the world need, the ones made 100 years ago still kill things dead.

Originally Posted by RUMPY

I have to agree @grandpamac. How many cartridges does the world need, the ones made 100 years ago still kill things dead.

So we should all use .303s and disown anything new because 303 will kill things dead....? Ha
Not sure why new or refined old technology is so offensive to lots of (mostly old) firearms enthusiasts. If you want to carry your wooden 303 firing old slow mil surp ammo with open sights around the hills, in a swandri and red bands, sure, you’ll kill things dead. Are there better tools for the job or improved ways of doing things...?