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Comparison to .45-70 and .444?[edit]

I'm not sure this is an apt comparison, as these are very, very different cartridges. The .348 was a thoroughly 20th-century high-power cartridge, with better performance than, say, the .35 Remington. With a muzzle velocity of nearly 2900 fps with a 150gr bullet-- over twice that of the .45-70 -- the .348 was in the performance class of the 30-06. The .45-70 was an old Victorian blackpowder beast with low velocity and a rainbow trajectory, and the .444 was an attempt to reproduce its ballistics during a time the old .45 Gov't was out of production.