>>668556

>If you make the case capacity and pressure in between those two you could get something that is either between those two both in power and longer barrel gains, or you could end up with a lighter-recoiling and possibly more powerful 357mag with almost all it's barrel gains if these increases end up being multiplicative, which i suspect is the case so you can easily beat 357 if you just scale up 327's capacity to the caliber.

That's good to hear. It's not that I want a boutique cartridge, I'm just theorizing about equipping a military that doesn't need to adhere existing standards and is supported by its own arsenals.

>Isn't it rivaled by 6.5CM?

No, that's 6.5×47mm Lapua. Both that and 6.5 Creedmoor have vaguely the same length and casehead as 7.62mm NATO, and their performance is nearly the same. 8.58×70mm Lapua Magnum is real magnum cartridge.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6.5mm_Creedmoor

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/6.5%C3%9747mm_Lapua

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.338_Lapua_Magnum

>What on earth uses these?

Vid related. Nearly every STANAG magazine is capable of accepting that spoon, and the US still issues its 5.56 ammunition in bandoliers filled with chargers.

>>668573

>Being as loud and recoiling and barrel-burning and flashy as a scaled-down 50BMG

Something like that; think of it as a smaller and lighter alternative for that cartridge.

>>668667

>Well, you're free to try.

I don't have to try anything, the cartridge really is the de facto choice for sniper rifles by now., and there is even a machine gun:

https://modernfirearms.net/en/machineguns/u-s-a-machineguns/lwmmg-eng/

>designing a bit lighter anti materiel rifle with hydraulic recoil dampening stock would be more reasonable

Actually, it can supposedly retain a similar amount of kinetic energy at longer ranges to what .50 BMG is capable of. In addition, there is a gap in the armour levels of vehicles: after 7.62 NATO or Russian the next step is either .50 BMG or 14.5mm. So Lapua Magnum should be able to destroy a truck that is armoured against 7.62 cartridges nearly as well as .50 BMG, but if the truck is better armoured than that, then won't even .50 BMG can penetrate it. And the jump is even higher if you are up against NATO standard armour, because that directly goes to 14.5mm:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/STANAG_4569

You'd have to get something like these for that:

https://modernfirearms.net/en/sniper-rifles/large-caliber-rifles/austria-large-caliber-rifles/steyr-iws-2000-eng/

https://modernfirearms.net/en/machineguns/belgium-machineguns/fn-brg-15-eng/