Interesting read Thrawn, doesn't really prove much though.
Though it is funny as to how so many people are making claims when they know very little about it.
I understand that 30.06 is a more powerfull than 308 winchester,
Marginally more powerful.
but 308 win is a more accurate cartridge.
It's wrong to generally claim that one cartridge is more accurate then another. Each cartridge's accuraccy is based off of construction tolerances.
I can throw together a batch of ****ty 308's and a batch of immaculate .30-06's, that doesn't mean that 30-06's are more accurate then 308's.
I remember reading that the m1 in 30.06 is marginally less accurate than m14 in 7.62nato,
It is my experience that the M14 with milsurp ammo is a touch more accurate then the Garand is with milsurp ammo. The accuraccy difference would only be noticeable at ranges of greater then 400 yards.
But like I said before, accuraccy is based off of how much money you want to put into your ammo. A self loader can put 5 rounds in a quarter at 200 rounds with either gun. But they spend a lot of time and money perfecting the loadings for each round
Both cartridges are good deer and elk rounds, but too powerfull for combat shooting. If combat was still what it was in wwI when soldiers did most of their shooting stationary, they would be great, but it isn't.
Disagree. But now we are broaching the topic of opinions. I think the largest mistake the american military ever made was switching from .308/.30-06 to .223 . But I've gotten into page long discussions as to why, don't feel like doing that again here.
I also know that, and this is difficult for people to believe, DOD tests showed that field grade m16s shot tighter groups than field grade m14s.
Which field grade m16's? There were many different versions. The AR-15 would have, considering it was manufactured with tighter tolerances and better materials then the field grade M14. But the first couple versions of the M16 would not have shot tighter groups. It wasn't until the mid-to late 80's that the M16 finally reached a quality level equal to that of the M14, which was coming up on 40 years old. After 25 years and the direct cause of thousands of deaths, the M16 was finally a suitable equal (minus 5.56 vs. .308 arguments) to the M14.
