.375 Enabler — Extreme Ammo for Extreme Long Range (ELR)
The .375 EnABELR Cartridge — Big and Fast
The .375 EnABELR cartridge is slightly shorter than a .375 CheyTac so it allows the round to mag-feed. Applied Ballistics is currently using brass made by Peterson. The .375 EnABELR has achieved impressive velocities — 2990 FPS — with prototype Berger 379-grain solid bullets fired from a 1:7″-twist 30″ barrel. Applied Ballistics may also test 1:8″-twist and 1:9″-twist barrels. READ Bullet Testing Report.
The .375 EnABELR cartridge was designed to offer .375 CheyTac performance in a slightly shorter package: “The problem with the .375 CheyTac is that, when loaded with the highest performance .375 caliber bullets (379-407 gr Berger Solids, and the 400-425 grain Cutting Edge Lazers) the round is not magazine feed-able in any action that’s sized for CheyTac cartridges.
“Knowing the .375 CheyTac produced substantial performance, and that it was just too long for magazine feeding, made it easy to converge on a design for the .375 EnABELR. We just had to make the case short enough to achieve magazine length with the desired bullets, while adding a little more diameter to keep the case capacity similar to the .375 CheyTac. The resulting basic shape is quite similar in proportions to the successful .338 Norma Magnum Cartridge which, interestingly, was selected as the cartridge for General Dynamics Lightweight Medium Machine Gun (LWMMG).”
Here is Mitchell Fitzpatrick, shooting the 375 EnABELR in an ELR Competition.
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With the benefit of a blank slate and creating a cartridge from the ground up, why not give it a 30° shoulder? What was the reasoning for a 21° shoulder?
Editor: John — good question. A shoulder of 30° (or even steeper) should have advantages. However I suspect that Applied Ballistics was looking for something that could run well in a military semi-auto or even full-auto weapon.