Originally Posted by Stroker
I grabbed my .300 Weatherby Deluxe out of the safe one time thinking it was the .257 with almost the same identical wood. I loaded the .300 with the .257 ammo and had hunted for nearly 3 hours that afternoon and was sitting in the stand admiring the rifle when I realized it was the .300 instead of the .257....... So Yes, it happens.


Funny you should mention that....during my short stint as a range officer at an anonymous public shooting range, I found, what I thought was, a unique piece of brass. It looked like this:

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Turning it over I found this case head stamp:

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I thought to myself, someone must have been sighting in a 7mm RM and a 300 Weatherby and gotten one round confused.

I then looked more closely and found 19 identical cartridges on the ground!

Just glad they didn't try the 30 in the 7. Of course they'd only have done that once.

True story!