Here is a pic of the triple-neck terror, a cartridge that I have never shot but always wanted to build from when I first saw it in the May-June 1966 (no.1) issue of handloader

Cat

Looks like a telescoping fishing rod. Thanks for sharing, I guess.

Well, the B29 pales when compared to the hi-tech designed neck of this baby! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/crazy.gif" alt="" />
Cat

"there's nothing new under the sun!"

Cat,

I think you've topped them all with that article. The B-29 pales in comparison. If only the good doctor had been released from veterinary care, sporting firearms as we know them would be considered ancient relics of the dark ages of performance. I wonder if that doctor was related to Dr. Seuss? (same first name and all)

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Sycamore

Gotta be a version of the .224 Eargersplittinloudenboomer.

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Steve

No, I think that one is based on the .50BMG?
I found another in there that is a .17 necked from a .50BMG!! <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shocked.gif" alt="" />
Cat

I'd AI it.

Where does it headspace?? Grin

Does it need to be used in a rifle that has 6+ locking lugs for safety's sake? I'll have to look through the junk boxes, there might be a 788 clip for that rifle in there somewhere.

Think I'll just stick with my .44-.357 Magnum and .600-06 Springfield � if I can ever figger-out how to get the prototypes out of the forming dies.

This looks like something that George Leonard Herter might have designed and promoted. Wait! He did! At least something similar....On the cover of "Cartridges of the World", Vol.2, is an illustration of a belted, "double venturi" 270 Mag. attributed to Herter.

Yep. A Ram! Magnum! IMPROVED!!!!

.0078 offhand group at 750 yds.!!!! And ten shots too. I wish I could write like that. But even my trusting wife wouldn't believe me on that one because she's seen me shoot offhand, sometimes missing five large rams in a row at a mere 200 meters.

Douglas M. Graves was a nom de plume of the estimable Dean Grennell. He had more fun inside of his head than the average gunwriter.
--Bob

BullShooter,
That explains it very well. Thanks. I'm still laughing.

Would having a double chin improve the winddrift while shooting the triple neck? Is there a belted version?

The version with suspenders is more interesting.

Can't lay my hand on it at the moment, but I believe the triple-neck terror appeared in the first edition of Grennell's "ABC's of Reloading".

That book is a gem of reloading literature, and treasure-trove of Grennellian prose. What a wordsmith he was.

Mainframe

The dies are the easy part Ken, loading the gun is a toad however. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/tongue.gif" alt="" />

Yeah, you have to load it from the muzzle. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif" alt="" />

You'd never believe the system that I designed to chamber such cartridges from the breech.
(I don't dare show it to Remington.) Designing can sho' be fun sometimes!

cat,I seem to remember seeing something like that in the museum at the Aberdeen Proving Grounds.30 cal.duplex load (maybe more).Went over 6000 fps.Anyone recall this?

Ken,
I believe uncle Ambrose did that with his patent no. 14491 back on March 25, 1856. It looks like that patent anticipates the Nagant gas-seal also.