I have a random question about the 30-06: why is the case so long!? If you compare it to other contemporary military cartridges, all the others are shorter, some more so than others. Take the 7.62 Russianicon for example, developed about 15 years before the 30-06, and yet much shorter. Then look at the 7 and 8 mm Mauser, and .303 Britishicon. And all modern military cartridges follow the same pattern; meanwhile the US adopted a long-cased cartridge for how many decades (albeit a GREAT round), and finally caught on to short cartridges with the 7.62x51 (.308).
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