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London Andrews

Good on ya boys! Can't say I'm a chubby chaser, but I'm certainly a chubby catcher!

She doesn't exactly make me think 300WbyMag, more like 450 Bushmaster. To each his own....... (grin)

Tex n cal, there is little I can think of that would be a greater carnage creator on a deer than a 165BT at 3,400+. Please shoot some stuff with it and let us know how it performs. I hunted a few seasons with a 150BT at that speed and things rarely went anywhere other than straight down. Exits were messy and coyotes looked like they had swallowed tannerite.

LBP: london andrews ... that is good stuff. how bout some kate upton?

Kate is great up top, a little lean down south but she would sure do in a pinch.

More London

She is something special. 450 Bushmaster indeed.

Doubt there's any Bush in there at all! Nor this one.

I have fired 300 Wby. Factory loads that had the brass flow into the ejector slightly and cause a bright spot on the case head.

This thread is not exactly going the direction I expected...



I found some old (~1987) lots of 7828. try them, or look for 7828SSC ?

I've had factory loaded 30-378 blow the primers..180's @ 3500FPS is possible out of the 30-378 I like to use four dollar a piece brass more than one time tho.

whale whale whale what do we have here....

MAN THE HARPOONS!

Someone get some water to keep its skin oool, you.. go to the marina and find a tug boat captain we have to drag her off the beach!

Yes. Weatherby ammo is for sure hot.

I recently pulled some 257 W'by factory loads - they clocked at 3760 (100 grain bullets IIRC). App 300 fps faster than any load data I could find, extractor marks, hard extraction, heavy recoil. We reloaded them with a bit less of the powder we pulled, and my buddy decided he liked practice loads at slightly over 3300.

Mark

That's within about 10 fps of what I got with factory rounds.

In my Sako 30-378 I noticed soot around the primer on the first shot, so I measured the case head just above the groove before and after firing the second round. It expanded .005"! That's right, 5 thousandths, and the primers fell out when barely touched by the decapping pin. I think only the soot was holding it in the cup. A new primer could be seated with light finger pressure. I pulled the bullets from the remaining rounds of that 95-dollar box of ammo and loaded them myself with Retumbo. I got a little CHE in once-fired cases at 9 grains below book max so I loaded the rest at 10 grains under max and they shot great. Ain't no way I'm shootin' ammo like that, factory loads or not.

That's Sophie Howard, and you aren't just whistling Dixie! "Special" is an understatement!

I like giv'n the "thick" to the gals.

I saw one Wby just like mine sold at auction recently. For about 1/2 what I paid. And I thought I got a good deal