New Cartridge: The 6.8 Western is a Versatile Hunting Round from Browning and Winchester

If you want to introduce a successful new big-game cartridge these days, it’s got to be the fastest, hottest, hardest-hitting, new load ever created, right? Well, actually, no. Browning and Winchester’s new 6.8 Western works off the concept that if you take a long, sleek, heavy bullet and fire it at a reasonable velocity, you’ll get just as good (or better) down-range performance as ultra-fast bullets that are less streamlined. And, you’ll get that performance with less recoil. So their engineers took a .270 Winchester Short Mag. case and shortened the shoulder to allow for a longer bullet in a short-action rifle. That also meant less propellant loaded into the round.

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