No concern for repeating myself I will repeat myself. After measuring the belt I was going to fire a load and then measure the belt to check for expansion. I was used to the recoil of an eleven pound 7-.300 Weatherby but not even ready for the recoil of a eight pound .340 Weatherby. After loading it I casually more or less aimed at the ground a few feet in front of me. I fired it from the waist. The bolt knob was
INSIDE the webbing between the thumb and index finger
!I told the owner to send it in to KEEPER and have a "brake" EDMed. After that I worked up a load for him that was consistent 3/4" with three Nosler Partition 210 grainers at 3,212 feet per second. It felt like a .30-06.
