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Walked over and spoke to a guy shooting a new Weatherby Ultralight at the range. Thought I'd check it out. Very light gun and sweet rifle. Shooting a 300Roy with the muzzle break made me move down 3-4 benches from him. The noide is unreal! After he said he liked the idea of being able to shoot 300WinMag and 300Roy shells in the same gun, I promptly moved 3-4 more benches away from him ... after I told him how sadly mistaken he was.

Nice...

What was he loading?? Did you correct his Dumb aZZ before he loaded the 300 Win??

Regretably, he probably got that info from someone behind the counter at the large sporting goods retailer in your area. I can't believe some of the stuff I've overheard at the one near me.

Reminds me of the Generic Elk Rifle.

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"Represented in our camp were virtually all of the standard belted magnum cartridges, from 7mm Remington Magnum to .375 H&H, and each hunter in turn, and many out of turn, sang the praises of their pet loudenboomer.

As for me, well, I had been working on a new heavy game brush rifle that late summer and early fall, putting an E.R. Shaw barrel on a VZ24 action chambered for .458 Win. Mag.
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"Stanton, what's that abortion you're carrying?" Without a hesitation, I replied, "Oh, this, it's just my generic magnum, you might call it the perfect elk rifle!"

"What do ya mean 'generic elk rifle'? There's no such thing!"

"Oh, sure there is.", I replied "Toss me one of your cartridges and I'll show you!" My pigeon bit hard, and threw me a .375 H&H. I carefully made sure that the military safety was in the upright position to lock the firing pin, then dropped the big .375 down the chamber and closed the bolt behind it, then opened the bolt and extracted the round like I knew what I was doing (what I didn't do, was try to eject it! Instead I simply pushed the case down, free of the extractor) and handed the round back to it's owner. One-by-one, each of our hunting party passed me their pet cartridge, and deliberately, and dramatically, I chambered them after feeding from the magazine, then ejected them each after chambering with a gusto and bravado, to display the "versatility" of my home-grown elk rifle."


Full story here:
http://www.beartoothbullets.com/trail/archive_trail_talk.htm/17

Bruce

I'm thinking it might work. The cartridge diameter on both cartridges is the same and both cartridges can headspace on the belt.

Anyway, it's not something I intend to try but, it might work.

If I remember correctly, someone posted some 300 Win brass that was fired out of a Weatherby. Ended up with the Weatherby shoulder and an extremely short neck.

I'm to the point now when shooting if someone comes by to talk I just about run away. Seems about 99.5% of the guys I meet shooting really shouldn't own a rifle.

I was working at the range one day and had a guy set up a beautiful Weatherby and get ready to shoot. I'm on the spotting scope to work his first shot, and when his gun goes off, I've got no hole in his target at 50 yards. I look over to see him holding the gun which is now in two pieces. Here's the scoop:

1. Relatively new shooter
2. Someone LOANED him this beautiful .270 Weatherby Mag.
3. Went to the store and asked for a box of ammo for a .270.
4. Guess those .270 Winchester rounds don't work too well in a Weatherby Mag!

The stock shattered at the pistol grip. The bolt all most came open, which would have most likely not been a very good thing, and there was brass shrapnel throughout the action. No idea how the scope fared through all this, as the gun was toast at this point.

We had a cigar box full of casings that had been fired through wrong guns, but this was the first one I saw do this. 'Hope I never see another, I can tell you that!

DON'T get me started....


Ingwe

gopher - I blame the lender in that one. He shoulda done some sort of training on the new guy and the differences in 270's.

A friend of mine has a daughter who is a manager at Walmart.
She was paged to the sporting goods counter. The clerk had sold the wrong shells to a customer and he wanted to exchange them for the correct cartridges. Because Walmart does not take returns on ammo the clerk had told the customer he couldn't take the ammo back. The manager said that since the ammo had never left the counter it should be OK to exchange for the correct ammo. Her manager found out about it and did everything she could to make a 911 incident out of it. She acted like a Federal law had been broken. Tempest in a Teacup.

Well, I did have a situation as Range Officer where a friend of mine had brought his son to the range to shoot the obligatory 10 cartridges before deer season. He asked why is was having trouble getting cartridges in the chamber. He had 243 WSM cartridges and a 243 rifle. Guess it was better that way than the other way around.

It's the new and improved 300 Win Mag, better known as the 300 Win Mag Ackerly Improved.

Being deaf in one ear and partially in the other makes pretty much all centerfire rifles sound the same to me.

I was downrange once during a ceasefire and a ~8-10 year old kid sitting at the bench fired a .22. He didn't come close to hitting anyone, but it was pretty mind-boggling. When I got back to the bench I calmly suggested that his Dad quit BSing with his friends and supervise the kid. The rangemaster ran over and was much less calm. They were still talking when I left.

What could have been said is that the .300 H&H will
work in a .300 Weatherby.

Keith used it in a Weatherby for lighter loads for his wife.

I do not agree with the practice. It was done in the
1960's.

There...fixed it for ya...

Tell us what you really think Middlefork.

Didn't lie, did he!