Greatest Cartridges: 7.62x51 NATO or .308, Either Way it Packs a Punch

The cartridge was developed in the 1950′s as the NATO standard small-arms cartridge. Standardizing a single cartridge for use among all the NATO allies provided a substantial advantage over the previous situation whereby each NATO nation was armed with its own cartridge with little, if any, interchangeability John Hames shared with you:   Greatest Cartridges: 7.62x51 NATO or .308, Either Way it Packs a Punch gundigest.com - The 7.62×51 NATO or .308 Winchester offers nearly the same ballistics as a .30-06, but in a more compact cartridge. First, let's start this discussion with a comparison between the 7.62×51 NATO cartridge and its civilian counterpart, the .308 Winchester. The differences between them are very small, but they are not precisely the same. Available on the App Store.

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