Link to 300WM military document?

DENWA

Does anyone here know where to find the document discussing the development of the 300 Win Mag for military use?

I've read it once before its pretty interesting. I think its written by a Naval officer and covers the devlopment of the HPBT bullets and RL19 as the powder. I believe its a scan of some typed letters I could be wrong it's been a while.


If anyone has a clue what I'm talking about let me know.


Thanks

nononsense

DENWA,

These are the first 2 pages from an article on SniperCountry. They are the only pages I can locate right now although the original document consisted of 5 pages:

http://www.snipercountry.com/graphics/A-191a.gif
http://www.snipercountry.com/graphics/A-191b.gif

You might try a search on SniperCountry to see if the files still exist of if this is just from the cache.

Best.

iceracerx

Here's a cleaner link w/ 5 pages

http://www.snipercountry.com/Articles/A191a.asp

DENWA

Thanks!

You guys should charge for this level of service!

nononsense

iceracerx,

That's the one! I forgot the proper extension...

Best.

iceracerx

Teamwork!

You can throw me money anytime DENWA, that way I can feed my hobby.[:D]

orthros

Thanks for posting the links. While perusing over on a DOD auction website, I ran across 56,000+ lbs. of fired brass in 5.56, 7.62, .50 and what I thought was strange, about 750 lbs of .300 Win. Mag. Now I know the reason.

http://www.crane.navy.mil/whatwedo/conventionalammo.asp

sandwarrior

DENWA,

We now know why it came about that the Navy started using A-191. I don't know why the right answers left them though, as the 7mm Rem mag does a better job. In 1968 a member of the Navy shooting team won the National Match title at Camp Perry using a 7mm Rem Mag shooting 168 gr. Sierra Bullets. Un-official word was that the 7mm was also secretly being used by Navy Seals on Covert operations. (Gen. MacArthur would be rolling in his grave!) For whatever reasons the 7mm got canned. But, the Secret Service still uses it as their counter-sniper round. It kills me when the military pretends to know more about shooting than the guys who win doing it regularly.