Why .408 ? What is bad with .416 or .375 ? What is exact diameter of this bullet ? What do you think about using this round for hunting ?

Jiri

hi jiri,
visit www.cheyennetactical.com and take the time to download and read the articles dealing with development and testing of the .408 for details.
the cartrige was developed as a military round, thus no need to use a bullet diameter already common with hunting calibers, bullets are specially made anyway. probably they also wanted to have something "different" on purpose .
as to hunting with this round, if you want to lug around such a rifle, why not? still, you'd need suitable bullets (Gerard? ), or just neck it up to .416 (has already been done) or down to .375 or...

regards,

dcjs

Neck it down to a 7mm for a 7mmSTTC
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BMG: Yes, 40" barrel, made from something like titanium carbide or some ceramics, because it will have same throat erosion like 17/378WBY , and brass will burn out in chamber, so it will not need extractor etc . . .