The rings were secured by clamp screws on bases with terminal lips. However, they are rifle cartridges, and this is a handgun cartridge. But Im like my Canadian friendsjust wish the ammo was more available! Introduced by Weatherby in 1958, the .460 was, for 29 years, the most powerful commercial cartridge you could buy. Smaller 300s such as the .300 Weatherby Magnum and .300 Winchester Magnum do well enough in this arena. Bought mine in 2007 for a brown bear hunt on the Alaska Peninsula. Your body is free to move under the jolt. The recoil energy and recoil velocity figures are taken In addition, the effects of recoil are cumulative. Left and right hand options. Some of these devices contain mercury to hike inertia. Your bodys weight holds you all but immobile; shoulder and face stop the rifle. There is one additional .30-378 challenge you dont face with a .30/06 Springfield or .308 Winchester barrel burnout. from a 9 lb rifle. Its like a monstrous mechanical fart. This is the ultimate cartridge for long-range, big game hunting. This is the ultimate cartridge for long-range, big game hunting. people often ask why I need a caliber so big. The 7mm-08 Remington's recoil produces 14.88 ft-lbs of energy at a velocity of 10.68 fps. They just needed as much muzzle velocity as they could safely and sanely get for delivering long, heavy, high B.C. given in feet-per-second. The SilencerCo Harvester 338 has made a name for itself in this big bore suppressor category because of its reduced sound signature and recoil. It was a .378 Weatherby necked up to fire .458 bullets, and it sent 500-grain slugs down the barrel at 2,700 fps, producing 8,100 foot-pounds of energy along the way. Just be prepared for oversized recoil, short barrel life, expensive ammo, and a certain amount of notoriety for packing the biggest, fastest, hardest hitting .30-caliber. The Lapua comes with a case capacity of 114.2 gr of water, while the 338-378 Weatherby holds 9.5% more at 125 gr of water. Ammo is loaded by Norma: a 300-grain bullet at 2,800 fps and 5,224 ft.-lbs. Weatherby Mark V action. Right hand only. Stay up-to-date on exciting content as well as updates on new products, promotions, and much more. In the There is a small risk of petal loss when the GMX is used in this manner though this makes little difference to its performance. Tac gray and graphite black Cerakote. This is because shooting a .50 BMG built as a conventional rifle will probably put you in the hospital, so all the .50s I know about, or have shot (probably half a dozen) weigh 25 to 30 pounds and are fitted with huge clamshell muzzle brakes. Subscribe to OL+ for our best feature stories and photography. (The standard British .303 Lee-Enfield At .30-378 speeds, 165- to 220-grain bullets deliver at long range what lesser .30-calibers do at mid-range. for a military service rifle. Both the .375 Weatherby Magnum and .375 RUM deliver more than 5,000 foot-pounds of energy, and both shoot considerably flatter than any .375 H&H or .375 Ruger load. Its ballistics are hardly anemic, yet it's a mild-mannered cartridge that can be housed in .30-06-length actions. He is gone now, and I bear him no ill will. Weatherby Mark V action. Messrs. Atkinson & Marquart necked up the Weatherby from .45 to .47, which allowed it to take 600-grain bullets and fire them at 2,500 fps with 8,040 foot-pounds of energy. Weatherbys claim: up to 95 percent recoil reduction. Knoxx stocks on 12-gauge slug guns Ive fired substantially softened the kick. Available in 14 calibers. But if you're also looking for a conversion of caliber in inches to mm, the following chart should have what you're looking for. for (var i=0; i