r/canadaguns • u/Western_Wish4280 • 26d ago

Shitpost / Memes Is this an Anti tank round?

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/s (sarcasm on title)

Went to the range with my buddy to try out my fully cleaned SKS and was having a blast with it 10/10.

He wanted to get his rifle ready to get a bear starting sept 1st. So he invites me to take the first shot from his savage 110 in 300wsm. Tells me its a bit strong like the 308win Tikka i have. So i be prepared to shoot it.

HOLY FUCK B'Y !!

Like what on God's green earth is this tf!? Buddy died laughing and i was astonished by the power this cartridge has.

Guys who shoot this, dont knock on my door please. 😭

Brought it with me as a keepsake and as a goal to master it one day.

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u/EnvironmentalFox7532 26d ago

Give 338 lapula a shot and 300 wsm is nothing.

Fired 50BMG a few times before and that’s just ridiculous but so much fun. Atleast my buddy’s 50BMG weighed 18 or 19lbs so it didn’t jump too bad and had a break on it. Wouldn’t want to shoot that in a lighter chassis without a break that’s for sure.

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u/Western_Wish4280 26d ago

Im still a very new shooter and man, im honestly scared to shoot high calibers at the moment. But hey gotta experience it atleast right? XD will try out a lapua magnum sometime soon

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u/Q-Ball7 In the end, it's taxes all the way down 26d ago

A lot of it is mediated by the weight of the gun.

The simple version is that recoil is how fast the gun is sent crashing into you. In its most basic form, this is just momentum, and (bullet weight * bullet velocity) / (mass of the gun) is how that's calculated.

A gun that weighs twice as much recoils half as hard; a gun that weighs half as much recoils twice as hard. If you rigged up a (weightless) test stand where the gun was sitting on ice, the heavier one would be sent backwards twice as fast when fired.

.300WM (and .300WSM) are designed to come in at the upper limit of "how hard an 8-pound rifle can hit the average shooter before it actively injures them over multiple firings". You're ideally only going to shoot once, so the fact it will bite you is less relevant (or it's a long range rig that weighs 14 pounds, which cuts that recoil nearly in half). Sucks to sight them in, though.