308 is a high-velocity round capable of taking everything from medium-sized predators such as coyotes out to the dream list of North American big game. With a myriad of factory bullet loads ranging from as light as 79- to as heavy as 200-grains, the. 308 offers performance akin to “God’s Caliber,” the. Weighing in at just 7.5-pounds, the magazine-fed T25 could rock and roll on its T65 cartridges at over 700 rounds per minute, blowing away anything else the Army had in the field or on the drawing board.Īs the Army originally intended in the 1940s when they started work on the design, as well as Savage Arms before it, the. The first gun designed specifically to fire the T65, the Army’s T25 trials rifle, was constructed in 1948. 30-06, which it approached ballistically. 300S it took cues from while still being shorter and more compact than the old. At 7.62x49mm, it was just slightly longer than the. With that, the experimental T65 “lightweight” cartridge was quickly designed by the Army at Frankford Arsenal in Pennsylvania. 300S was designed as a cartridge for lever-action rifles, such as Savage’s Model 99, and the Army decided to better tweak it for use in autoloaders. 300 Savage (7.62x47mm) cartridge in the late 1930s.
30-caliber round that produced similar results but in a smaller action, the Army began experiments with the. 30-06 Springfield (7.62圆3mm) cartridge in 1906 (hence the “aught-six” part of the title), and it went on to be used in the M1903 and M1917 Enfield bolt-action rifles of WWI, the semi-auto M1 Garand of WWII and Korea, and the ubiquitous M1918 BAR and M1919 machine guns, that doesn’t mean Uncle Sam was entirely happy with it.
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