How good is the 280 Ackley Improved?
280 Ackley Improved looks like a winner as a deer, pronghorn, elk and moose hunting cartridge. It rivals the ballistics of a 7mm Magnum with less muzzle blast, less recoil and more rounds in the box magazine. It is also highly accurate, mild-mannered and deadly in the field.
What is an improved cartridge?
“Improved” cartridges have been around ever since Lisle Kilbourn cut a . 22 Hornet chamber with a sharp shoulder and fired a standard Hornet case, resulting in slightly more powder capacity – and velocity. The process has since been applied to hundreds of cartridges.
What does Ackley Improved mean in a rifle?
The Ackley Improved family of wildcat cartridges are designed to be easily made by rechambering existing firearms, and fireforming the ammunition to decrease body taper and increase shoulder angle, resulting in a higher case capacity.
How good is 25-06?
25-06 shines. Its flat-shooting capabilities are legendary and well-earned; and if it’s effective at 350 yards, it’s also effective at 50 yards, and therefore a fine, do-it-all rifle for coyotes across a row crop field to whitetails in the woods to pronghorns on the plains.
What is Ackley?
Ackley is a pimply, insecure boy with terrible dental hygiene. He often barges into Holden’s room and acts completely oblivious to Holden’s hints that he should leave. Holden believes that Ackley makes up elaborate lies about his sexual experience.
Is there a 270 Ackley Improved?
There Is No 270 Ackley Improved, Either. Nevertheless, many shooters have ignored his advice, feeling the slight velocity gain with 150-grain bullets makes the 270 A.I. a bit more effective for elk, moose, etc.
When did the 280 Ackley Improved come out?
Developed by P.O. Ackley and Fred Huntington and known previously by a variety of names such as the “. 280 Rem. Ackley Improved 40 degrees,” this cartridge was standardized by Nosler and accepted by SAAMI in 2008.
How is an Ackley 25-06 made?
Here a parent cartridge has its chamber opened up to reduce the original body taper and to sharpen the shoulder angle. The parent cartridge is then fired in the improved chamber, resulting in a new wildcat cartridge. All of Ackley’s cartridges were formed in this manner, including the .25-06 Ackley Improved.
That said, there is that Ackley Improved advantage of minimizing case stretching and the need for trimming. That might be excuse enough for some to go the A.I. route with any of these short action cartridges. There Is No 270 Ackley Improved, Either.
What kind of ammo does Ackley make?
Despite the distance of time, some of his developments – notably the .30-30 Ackley Improved, the .257 Roberts Ackley Improved and the .280 Remington Ackley Improved – enjoy considerable popularity today. A wildcat cartridge is one that is not chambered by major manufacturers nor is loaded ammunition available from major
Which cartridges would benefit the most from conversion to Ackley Improved?
Reader K. Akins recently wrote to ask which cartridge I thought would benefit the most from conversion to Ackley Improved: the 260 Remington, 270 Winchester, or 7mm-08 Remington. (Anyone who isn’t exactly sure what Ackley Improved means can learn the details in this earlier blog .)