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SHOT Show 2012 Bonus Podcast: Smith & Wesson's Paul Pluff

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🗓️ 17 January 2012

⏱️ 8 minutes

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On this special Shot Show podcast: Paul Pluff discussing the new Smith & Wesson products.

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0:00.0

All right if you got guns going off in the background it means we're still at

0:03.1

the shooting range here at Media Day at Shasha lots of things to see and people are

0:07.1

talking about the 300 Whisper and we're with Paul Puff from Smith and West of Paul

0:12.0

you guys have added this to the line.

0:14.0

You got a wide background and shooting. What's your impression of this cartridge?

0:19.0

I personally like it. It's pretty neat. I mean one of the things that we're starting to see is we're starting to see

0:25.0

more and more people get into hog hunting we're seeing that they really take off

0:28.1

what the 300 Whisper does is gives you the advantage to go out there and be able to shoot and shoot much more before you know

0:35.4

the animal starts to recognize that you have something out there that's shooting at them.

0:40.0

The nice thing about it also the 300 whisper is basically what they've done is they take that standard 556 round.

0:46.3

They've shortened it and it's a standard case. They've shortened the case a little bit to accept the length of a 30 caliber bullet.

0:51.8

Right. Okay. And then what they've done instead of necking it down to that. except the length of a 30 caliber bullet, okay?

0:53.0

And then what they've done instead of necking it down to that 2-23 or 5-6,

0:56.4

they necked it up to the 30 caliber.

0:58.0

So you have a 30 caliber round.

0:59.7

And then you have the ability to shoot a both supersonic okay and subsonic and when you put it in

1:05.3

that subsonic round at 200 grain you really still have enough terminal

1:10.3

ballistics to go out through an actually to go out to about 200

1:13.6

yards and it really falls off. Now if you want to shoot longer distances you know

1:17.8

then you really need to go with the supersonic which is you know if you're going to

1:22.3

go supersonic then it becomes a good deer rifle because it is a 30 caliber

1:26.5

in that case here

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