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As some of you know I have been designing a new cartridge design to announce as a NYSH exclusive special caliber.
I looking into building a 35 caliber hunting upper and post all the development here so others can enjoy.
I have another thread to follow up on development. Initially these are the directives:
- It will be compact and super accurate
- It will be a powerful cartridge in large caliber to dispatch the largest animals with authority.
- It must work reliably with standard 6.8 or grendel 10 rds magazines.
- Initially I like the 35 so we can use some of the 9mm, 357 and 358 budget/ bulk deals so it will be affordable to shoot for practice.
The speeds of 357 154gr bullets will be brutal in many game and 180gr and 200gr to pop dinosaurs! lol.
- It must be easy to reload and use a wide range of common and affordable powders.
- It will serve as a SHTF gun than could also be shot with black powder and common 9mm bullets.
- I can also shoot subsonic and lead boolits if needed.
- It will use common easy to find brass and other brass can be used to easily form the cases with little more than 1 time trimming and reaming. No fire-forming needed.
- Barrel will be with a target crown and/or sleeve to protect it so it is BS SAFE compliant.
When looking at the different vendors I see volume discounts starting at 4 units and then prices get a lot better and I have to have some custom reaming ordered. So by
keeping this in the mid $700, prices drop with volume, of course one could spend a fortune in just the rails but I don't think it adds any value. The value is in good barrels
and bolts and a decent rail that one can use with any standard lower.
The good thing about this is that it will pay by itself pretty easily by shooting pistol bullets for practice and accuracy barrel life would be above 20,000 rounds.
35 caliber is well known for letting lots of air in and lots of blood out.
A few questions for you...
A) So would anyone be interested in a group a buy so we can order more bolts and barrels?
B) Also how should we name this bad boy. 35FortyTwo, 35 Brutus, 35 NYSH, 35 GBS (Gunner's Bar Special) ? LOL
Ballistics Results (estimated calculations)
your thoughts?
I looking into building a 35 caliber hunting upper and post all the development here so others can enjoy.
I have another thread to follow up on development. Initially these are the directives:
- It will be compact and super accurate
- It will be a powerful cartridge in large caliber to dispatch the largest animals with authority.
- It must work reliably with standard 6.8 or grendel 10 rds magazines.
- Initially I like the 35 so we can use some of the 9mm, 357 and 358 budget/ bulk deals so it will be affordable to shoot for practice.
The speeds of 357 154gr bullets will be brutal in many game and 180gr and 200gr to pop dinosaurs! lol.
- It must be easy to reload and use a wide range of common and affordable powders.
- It will serve as a SHTF gun than could also be shot with black powder and common 9mm bullets.
- I can also shoot subsonic and lead boolits if needed.
- It will use common easy to find brass and other brass can be used to easily form the cases with little more than 1 time trimming and reaming. No fire-forming needed.
- Barrel will be with a target crown and/or sleeve to protect it so it is BS SAFE compliant.
When looking at the different vendors I see volume discounts starting at 4 units and then prices get a lot better and I have to have some custom reaming ordered. So by
keeping this in the mid $700, prices drop with volume, of course one could spend a fortune in just the rails but I don't think it adds any value. The value is in good barrels
and bolts and a decent rail that one can use with any standard lower.
The good thing about this is that it will pay by itself pretty easily by shooting pistol bullets for practice and accuracy barrel life would be above 20,000 rounds.
35 caliber is well known for letting lots of air in and lots of blood out.
A few questions for you...
A) So would anyone be interested in a group a buy so we can order more bolts and barrels?
B) Also how should we name this bad boy. 35FortyTwo, 35 Brutus, 35 NYSH, 35 GBS (Gunner's Bar Special) ? LOL
Ballistics Results (estimated calculations)
| RANGE(YARDS) | VELOCITY(FPS) | ENERGY(FT.-LB.) | TRAJECTORY(IN) | COME UP IN MOA | COME UP IN MILS | WIND DRIFT(IN) | WIND DRIFT IN MOA | WIND DRIFT IN MILS |
| Muzzle | 2200 | 2149 | -2.5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 100 | 1940 | 1671 | 3.4 | -3.3 | -0.9 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 200 | 1701 | 1284 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| 300 | 1486 | 981 | -15.5 | 4.9 | 1.4 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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