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Originally Posted by Footmobile
Longrange, nice new avatar. Rocket Mountain has a spectacular view no?
A friend of mine who was in the only sniper platoon in the Corps to test run the Chey-Tac said the samething about the ammo. Shot great in the cold in Utah on Chey-Tac's range, shot terrible in the heat at 29 Plams before deployment. Said about 1 in 5 primer blow outs when the temps went above 100.
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There is a old trick, though NOT very practical for a combat situation. That is to keep your ammo in a cooler. I saw a chart that shows the increase of chamber pressure in relation to temperature. A number of SASS shooter will place their ammo in a "cool" compartment on their carts after that article came out.
I think, the military should, if it doesn't, teach and allow their sniper teams to reload for their specific rifles. Down side would be acquiring ammo in the field from another sniper team. Generally a reload for a specific rifle is only neck sized for greater accuracy. The case may or may not "chamber" in another rifle. I think they could probably they could work around that problem. Factory loads are sized for minimum chamber size, so that it chambers in all rifles but accuracy is not as good.
Longrange1947, thanks for the info on the barret. Seesh, sounds like the Army ordinance is still run by General Ripley (Civil War), He was a strong supported for smooth bores with buck and ball and would delay the development of any of the "newer Rifled muskets".