Re: .224 Valkyrie

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Pretty interesting cartridge. Like a 22 PPC with a faster twist rate to accommodate the heavier bullets- obviously less taper. Might burn barrels and brass at a pretty high rate, but will have to see how it does in the real world.
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Man. That is an interesting look at how much less drop you've got at 1000 yards than the Grendel. Comparable to my 7.62x54R loads in fact, with slightly higher wind drift
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Only thing is that it remains somewhat academic, or in other words for paper punching only. If I were actually trying to hit an active target at 1000 yards (and that's a speculative "if" in my world, since I'm not a military sniper), then I'd take 6.5 or .338.

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I don't think this would be particularly rough on barrels. It's nowhere near the charges of 22-250 or as overbore as the 243 (the two notorious barrel burners I can think of).

Edit to add: I looked it up, case capacity increase over 223/5.56 is not quite 20%. Barrel life will be fine. The big deal is a slight increase in capacity with a substantial decrease in case length, allowing for those wonderfully long bullets to be loaded at magazine length.
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If I had a farm where I could set up a 1000yd range I could get into it. Of course it would also have to involve owning an ultra lite so I could fly down to reset my targets.

I would hazard a guess that factory ammo would be cheaper than reloading 338 lapua or 50 BMG. 1000 yd facilities tend to be few and far between.

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eelj wrote:If I had a farm where I could set up a 1000yd range I could get into it. Of course it would also have to involve owning an ultra lite so I could fly down to reset my targets.

I would hazard a guess that factory ammo would be cheaper than reloading 338 lapua or 50 BMG. 1000 yd facilities tend to be few and far between.
Ammo prices aren't terrible, around $.50 for 75 grain, $1.10 for 90 grain, $1.20 for 90 grain match grade

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eelj wrote: Of course it would also have to involve owning an ultra lite so I could fly down to reset my targets.
:lol:

They make 1500 watt electric bikes that will make the trip almost as fast, way safer, way quieter and cheaper. Maybe not quite as much fun.
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I actually know someone who started working at Federal Cartridge as an engineer about six months ago or so. She's a roller derby skater on the same team as my daughter and her derby name is "Val Kyrie". They named this cartridge after her. :)

http://www.northstarrollerderby.com/pla ... /?team=212
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I don't know how much involvement she had with the actual design. I think she may have been involved in some of the testing.
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