Originally Posted by War_Eagle
Ugh...just heard a doozey...

Coworker: "My ex-girlfriend's daddy had a badazz rifle. It was a .375 H&H Mag...but it was necked down to hold a .30 cal bullet!


There is such a cartridge, sort of, the 30-378 Weatherby. It uses the 378 Weatherby case which is larger than a 375 H&H.

http://www.weatherby.com/product/ammunition/cartridges/40332

Originally Posted by War_Eagle
It would shoot like 8000fps. It was AMAZINGLY fast for a .30 cal. You could sight it in at 200 yards and hit anything holding dead on all the way out to 600 yards or more. And when he shot hawgs with it the hole left was amazing. You could stick both hands in the hole...or your whole arm. He paid, like, $5000 for this rifle. It was a Weatherby special."


Some of the details are exaggerated, but the 30-378 Weatherby is amazingly fast for a 30 caliber and does shoot extremely flat. Perhaps not quite as fast nor flat as stated, but....

Last edited by natman; 10/01/14.