He's enamored with the 300 AAC Blackout and keeps trying to talk me out of mine, but when I was researching that I know I liked the 338 Whisper and think it was an 'AR-compatible' round, but I went for the more 'standard' one and am glad I did. Nonetheless, we decided a 338 Whisper could be the lower end of the spectrum, and maybe a 338 Federal for the low-middle. Probably some wildcat for the high-middle.
We decided that the idea would be to stick with short/fat bullets for our handguns and long/skinny high-ballistic-coefficient bullets for the rifles. Of course that meant .45 for the handguns, because the battery HAD to include a 1911 and a big-bore wheelgun (convertible Bisley). We'd have to settle for either a small 1911 or DA revolver conversion or whatever in 45 instead of my 44 Bulldog for the small-CCW firearm.
The reason for sticking with the 338 for rifle (other than the exotic, hard-to-find-ammo-for 22 LR of course) was that it seems big enough to do about anything and yet small enough that driving a high-b.c. bullet to 3000 fps or more won't dislocate your shoulder. We of course had a lively debate about whether ANY 338 caliber cartridge (or weapon) would be suitable for close-range grizzly (lots of them here in Indiana, you know). In 'my' ideal minimalist battery there would be a carbine-sized levergun like an 1886 in 45-70 or 450 Mariln, or maybe one of the 500 S&W ones, even though it would break the 'single-caliber' rule.
This got me wondering if anyone ever made a 30-338 wildcat. Then I got to thinking do they even make 338 bullets with flat points.El Chivo wrote:I may also go ahead with the project to rebore a 30-30 to 30-357 and have a wide array of pistol bullets to shoot.
Anyway, just thought I'd share the musings...