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Why the .25-45 Sharp is likely the best new "AR" Round

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Why the .25-45 Sharp is likely the best new "AR" Round So, there's been quite a few new AR rounds out there or, .223 replacements. The 6.5mm Grendel, the 6.8mm Remington, the .300 black-out, the .458 SOCOM (which is actually an old round, but it's making a come-back) and numerous others designed to work inside of a gun more or less designed to fire the .223 or 5.56mm x 45mm NATO, without many modifications. The receiver of the gun, the legal part of the gun, and arguably the hardest part to make and recreate, can be used as well as the magazines with all these rounds, but the bolt, the recoil spring and the barrel often need to be replaced, which are fairly easy to replace on most firearms. Especially with the AR, which has an easily detachable barrel, it's easy modify these weapons to be able to accept and fire the rounds by changing out the bolt, the spring and the barrel. In the case of the .300 black-out and .25-45 sharps, all that needs to be replaced is, th...

Intermediate Cartridge Comparison

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Intermediate Cartridge Comparison While the 5.56mm has served admirably in the intermediate cartridge range, it is far from the perfect round. There are plenty of rounds with superior qualities to them, including accuracy, power, and even to some extent reliability, being easier to load in to most firearms. When discussing what the the ideal cartridge to