range dummy

[93marshooter]

I found these 300 win mag brass at the range today. Looks like they were shot in a 300 Weatherby or bigger mag. I am glad I was not around to see the look on the shooter face.

[Nazgul]

Definitely looks light a Weatherby chamber with rounded shoulders.

Don

[Hagler]

Boys & girls,

My first thought, when I saw that picture, was of the 7.62×38R Nagant (far-left round):



"7.62×38R (7.62 Nagant) cartridge (left), shown next to a .32 S&W Long Cartridge and a .22 LR cartridge for comparison."

Shawn

[shooter]

I have, embarrassingly enough, been at the range shooting .45 Colts and .44 Magnums before, and later when I went to reload my .44 brass, there were a few that were too big for the sizing die. Oops Taught me to pay better attention, that's for sure.

[Griff]

Almost every match I'm handed some .44-40 brass with my .45 Colts... they get weeded out when they get sifted out of the tumbler.
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Except every once in a while! They still function fine tho!

[jnyork]

Here's why you should not have .30-30 and .303 Brit ammo on the firing line at the same time:

[J Miller]

I remember many years ago when I lived in AZ my friend who taught hunter and gun safety classes came to me and asked if I had found any cartridges that had been fired in the wrong guns. I was a brass scrounger and if it wasn't any good I'd still scrounge it for my brass bucket.
I didn't have any then, but I told him it would be easy enough to make some.
So we fired a 30-30 out of 303 Brit, looked just like the ones in jnyork"s pics. Then we fired a 22 LR out of a 22 Mag, no big deal there, it just swelled up to the larger chamber size.
And if I remember right we fired a 44 mag out of a Ruger BH .45 Colt.

It was all for educational purposes you understand .... ... but we had fun doing it.

Since then I've found a lot of cases fired in the wrong guns. Never kept any of them though. Maybe I should have.

Joe

[TMair]

I have shot 22 LR out of a 22 Mag. before on purpose, I have fired 44 Mags out of a 45 Colt Trapper before, my mistake, I don't think it would have raised my eyebrows if I fired a 300 Win Mag out of a 300 Wetherby, you never know he could have been experimenting with fire forming 300 Win mag brass for his weatherby, I make my 416 Remington brass out of 375 H&H brass all the time, once I found out how much 416 brass costs...if/when you can find it
Terry

[ollogger]

93 my guess is he didnt have a Clue

[AJMD429]

93 my guess is he didnt have a Clue

Yep. I wouldn't be surprised if he hit the target, either. Good thing it wasn't a shorter cartridge body with a larger caliber bullet, though - although I have heard some amazing stories of even FMJ bullets being 'swaged' by firing them in lesser-caliber bottleneck chambers.

[93marshooter]

Like you I bet he never knew what happened. He probably went to a store and ordered 300 mag and got 300 win not 300 weatherbly. He didn't check his rifle or the box.

[O.S.O.K.]

At least the guy didn't chamber a .338 Win Mag and try to shoot that.... boom - shrapnel.

[ollogger]

i was in a store awhile back & a young gal asked me which 7mm
she needed a 7mm mauser or 7mm mag, i said well i dont know &
told her the diff. between the two, she understood it well & said i'll
call my husband & there was a short conversation & she flipped the
phone shut & looked at me & Said the Stupid Idiot
doesnt know which one he needs & he wants to go deer hunting tomorrow

ollogger

[Ysabel Kid]

When you said "range dummy" I figured you were talking about me!