Who’s seen this ... 25-45 sharps ?
Semi auto ar platform new barrel swap coming up
I’m going to look at this caliber real closely. See I have never agreed with a .223 on game sized animals. I have tracked way too many lost deer and seen young shooters with an ar that make bad shots... now I’m looking at this .257 sized bullet and thinking that would work a lot better on deer and hogs. Just a barrel swap and voila. Same lower same bolt same mags. Heck you can even resize 223 brass
I shoot a lot of 25-35 win in a lever and found it so very accurate and mild recoiling. I ordered a Sharps Made 25-45 and will keep you in the loop with some range reports
From wiki
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I'm trying to remember what the .25 Copperhead was based on. But it sounds very similar.
Found it. John Wooters used the .222 case for his Copperhead. Wayne Blackwell made a .25x47 from the .222 Rem Mag. All three of these are as alike ballistically as limas in a spoon.
Then of course, there's the .256 Win Mag to add to the stable of small, medium power quarter bores.
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Looked at that one but went with the 300 hammer instead ammo is easier to get especially since I don't reload anymore
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If I carry a rifle with me all day it will be comfortable to carry. AR15's are the most clumsy thing to carry I know.
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Yup, a .25 bullet is way better than a .22 bullet. A lesson that NATO and US military took a looooong time learning.
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truthful: 29953180474651/comments/29953186666395
Yup, a .25 bullet is way better than a .22 bullet. A lesson that NATO and US military took a looooong time learning.
So they went with an over-pressured .277...
The .25-45 Sharps sounds like an intriguing little round.
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Rocky Raab: 29953180474651/comments/29953186560795
I'm trying to remember what the .25 Copperhead was based on. But it sounds very similar.
Found it. John Wooters used the .222 case for his Copperhead. Wayne Blackwell made a .25x47 from the .222 Rem Mag. All three of these are as alike ballistically as limas in a spoon.
Then of course, there's the .256 Win Mag to add to the stable of small, medium power quarter bores.
I thought the same thing, I have the magazine article somewhere.
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They still make that?
One of the early 2000s put anything in an AR15 that went no where. I think the .300BlackOut kind a made all those into novelties.
savage170 - Kind a like me going with .458Socom instead of .450Buchmaster. But I'll reload (no background check on components here in California, yet).
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Looks like they have managed to duplicate the ballistics of the ancient 250-3000 Savage.
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kannoneer: 29953180474651/comments/29953171986587
Looks like they have managed to duplicate the ballistics of the ancient 250-3000 Savage.
Yep looks like it. Mankind spent the 20th century getting horsepower out of firearms, now we're in some race to go back to 1800s ballistics. I predict that in 10 years cap-n-ball will be all the rage.
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My eyebrows went up at that claim. Color me skeptical that it can duplicate the marvelous 250 Savage with much less case capacity and powder weight.
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We have a 6mm x 45 AR. Assembled for the kids before they were big enough for a 'real gun'. Performance was OK within the range capabilities of a young hunter but not astounding and Wooters claimed the 25/45 to be.
Best combination of velocity and bullet weight came with the Hornady 87 grain. I had lots of good experience with that bullet in the 243 Win and found that in the 100-150 yard range, the bullet worked well. Not spectacularly accurate but good enough.
That upper is no longer in use and not sure if Son still has it or just pulled the barrel and stored it. It was PITA keeping the 6x45 brass segregated and I was concerned that someone might manage to chamber a 6x45 cartridge in a .223.
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