408 CheyTac Vs
Look, can we get one thing clear today? Your butcher is no better than my butcher. Your local brand of Vodka is no different than that of my local brand of Vodka. It’s very rare these days that you find one particular product that is demonstrably better than it’s competition: Pepsi and Coke, Ferrari and Lamborghini, Northrup Grumman and Lockheed Martin, Victoria’s Secret and Wacoal, Cheyenne Tactical and Barrett.
And if you do find something that has a clear advantage over it’s rivals, I’ll wager that there’s something dreadfully wrong with it. Ultra-long-range sniper rifle ammunition is a classic case in point.
It’s not that sniper rifles can’t shoot for shit at long range – it’s the bullets they fire: They just can’t get out there.
In the time it takes a sniper to shoot someone with a .338 Lapua Magnum to actually get out beyond 2,000 yards, you’d have probably shot at least 3-5 rounds or more. But what happens if I told you there’s 2 rounds in the world that can do just that with one, single, magnificent shot?
Maybe, if I’m hypercritical, the two bullets could be labelled short. I mean, they’re both smaller than the .50 BMG. And maybe, if you see the comparisons, the images have been tarnished because an estate agency has bought them all. But if you want a long range solution to a long range problem, and are within a mile and a half of your target and want a cold-bore shot, I can’t think of a single reason why you would consider, even for a moment, using anything else.
Enter, the .408 Cheyenne Tactical and the Barrett .416.
Being developed by John D. Taylor and a machinist named William O. Wordman, it was designed to be used with military and law enforcement applications, specifically, in anti-personnel, anti-sniper and anti-materiel roles out to a range of a whopping 2,200 yards (2,000m). It can, get this, maintain supersonic speed even out to a range of 2,300 yards (2,100m). That’s just biblical. It really is. Compare that to the .50 BMG, it’s supersonic only up to a range of 1,500 yards and anything beyond that is considered a miracle.
It is a direct competitor to the .338 Lapua Magnum and .50 BMG long range cartridges. And obviously, the .416 Barrett.
It is a highly specialized, rimless, bottlenecked, centerfire cartridge that came from the .400 Taylor Magnum. All that was needed was to neck it down to accommodate the slightly smaller 10.4mm bullet diameter of the .408 and ta-da! All they needed was a powder that could propel it far and fast.
However, the cartridge is severely limited in that it requires a Cheyenne Tactical-issued military-grade laptop and a special Cheyenne Tactical-issued range-finder. In the tv show, Future Weapons, the bullet was featured with the M200 Cheyenne Tactical sniper rifle, and it took about 3 shots to get out to 2,300 yards. That’s not bad, actually. Considering that most bullets drop and hit the ground at 1,200 yards, that’s phenomenal! That’s a game changer, actually. Never before had a bullet reached out that far and touched a 4×4 foot wood block from 2,300 yards. The host of the show, Richard Mackowicz, was so impressed by the performance of the .408 and the M200, that I recall him saying it’s the best sniper weapon system in the world.
Being developed by John D. Taylor and a machinist named William O. Wordman, it was designed to be used with military and law enforcement applications, specifically, in anti-personnel, anti-sniper and anti-materiel roles out to a range of a whopping 2,200 yards (2,000m). It can, get this, maintain supersonic speed even out to a range of 2,300 yards (2,100m). That’s just biblical. It really is. Compare that to the .50 BMG, it’s supersonic only up to a range of 1,500 yards and anything beyond that is considered a miracle.
It is a direct competitor to the .338 Lapua Magnum and .50 BMG long range cartridges. And obviously, the .416 Barrett.
It is a highly specialized, rimless, bottlenecked, centerfire cartridge that came from the .400 Taylor Magnum. All that was needed was to neck it down to accommodate the slightly smaller 10.4mm bullet diameter of the .408 and ta-da! All they needed was a powder that could propel it far and fast.
However, the cartridge is severely limited in that it requires a Cheyenne Tactical-issued military-grade laptop and a special Cheyenne Tactical-issued range-finder. In the tv show, Future Weapons, the bullet was featured with the M200 Cheyenne Tactical sniper rifle, and it took about 3 shots to get out to 2,300 yards. That’s not bad, actually. Considering that most bullets drop and hit the ground at 1,200 yards, that’s phenomenal! That’s a game changer, actually. Never before had a bullet reached out that far and touched a 4×4 foot wood block from 2,300 yards. The host of the show, Richard Mackowicz, was so impressed by the performance of the .408 and the M200, that I recall him saying it’s the best sniper weapon system in the world.
