ajkellerusmc
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apparently it is also accurate enough to kill bull Elk at one mile!!!
Ummm, NO there isn't. Accuracy has to do with the rifle and barrel, and NOT the cartridge design. Any cartridge can be accurate.
Because people are creatures of habit. They see someone winning using something, then they have to have one, too, because they think it will help them win. Psyop. It's how our minds work. We're wired to want to win, therefore we see someone winning, we feel we're an equally good shot, so their advantage must be the rifle... When in reality our skills might just be lacking to someone else's. And so on it goes... So they buy the rifle, and subconsciously they start shooting better because they're instantly more confident in the rifle. People see something, have to have it, and others monkey-see, monkey-do, and sales go up, something gets popular all because of nothing more than misplaced confidence. Can you kill an elk with a .223...You sure can! Folks killed them with rocks and pointy sticks for thousands of years. But you've been taught that you need some monster huge magnum cartridge because they're armor-plated beasts from hell...So you go out and buy yourself a bigger stick. That's how marketing campaigns work. Does the bigger cartridge work better? Probably, because of more energy exerted into the target. But dead is still dead, nonetheless.Then why has virtually every short range benchrest match since the introduction of the 6mm PPC, been won by a 6mm PPC? If it were not more inherently accurate than other cartridges, then why are other cartridges not winning also?
Anything mental I tend to always look at from a Freudian perspective. Most everything we do is learned behaviors.Interesting opinion... I just don't agree with it. If short range BR could be won with something besides the PPC, folks would be doing it. They're not simply because there is nothing better yet.
John
Anything mental I tend to always look at from a Freudian perspective. Most everything we do is learned behaviors.