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SecretSquirrel38 · Monday at 5:39 PM

My son's friend made a mistake because he didn't know his gun. He shot some 300 Win Mag yesterday and gave me his brass. Well when I looked at it something was wrong. I was right. He has been shooting 300 Win Mag out of a 300 Weatherby Magnum. Look what it did to the brass. The right is the factory Federal 300 Win Mag. The left is the brass he shot out of a 300 Weatherby Magnum. That brass is already in the garbage.

fseaman · Monday at 5:44 PM

So glad the youths are fine.
Yes the brass is destroyed.
Thank goodness it doesn't cause danger type problems. Well, we saw lots of it but nothing ever blew up.
I used to see this a my local range. We were the closest range to Weatherby so a little more Wby in the rifle mix.

KNOTFERSAIL · Monday at 5:46 PM

That's almost as bad as whoever did the QC on that factory round..geezus

Varmint Hunter · Monday at 5:48 PM

Seems to have fireformed perfectly. How did it shoot?

fseaman · Monday at 5:51 PM

Varmint Hunter said:
Seems to have fireformed perfectly. How did it shoot?

Witnessed often enough to be able to say, not terrible, not predictable. That was the range master clue.

slikmrc · Monday at 5:51 PM

Made a 300 Win-Bee, have seen this more than once

memtb · Monday at 5:53 PM

SecretSquirrel38 said:
My son's friend made a mistake because he didn't know his gun. He shot some 300 Win Mag yesterday and gave me his brass. Well when I looked at it something was wrong. I was right. He has been shooting 300 Win Mag out of a 300 Weatherby Magnum. Look what it did to the brass. The right is the factory Federal 300 Win Mag. The left is the brass he shot out of a 300 Weatherby Magnum. That brass is already in the garbage.

OK….you now have short-necked 300 Weatherby brass!

But…..point well taken! memtb

SecretSquirrel38 · Monday at 6:23 PM

Varmint Hunter said:
Seems to have fireformed perfectly. How did it shoot?

Not that great.

SecretSquirrel38 · Monday at 6:28 PM

memtb said:
OK….you now have short-necked 300 Weatherby brass!

But…..point well taken! memtb

I won't be reloading that brass. I have been reloading for a few months and don't want to risk it.

hseII · Monday at 6:35 PM

Varmint Hunter said:
Seems to have fireformed perfectly. How did it shoot?

I mean it fits now.

memtb · Monday at 6:46 PM

SecretSquirrel38 said:
I won't be reloading that brass. I have been reloading for a few months and don't want to risk it.

Good decision!

That was "mostly" tongue in cheek! I've been known to push the envelope…..but, I'd probably

can those also! memtb

lancetkenyon · Monday at 8:31 PM

Probably nothing dangerous with that. But the brass is not good for anything anymore. Too short for .300Wby and would take a lot of work to get back to .300WM.

Not any different than a lot of other fire forming.

memtb · Monday at 8:45 PM

lancetkenyon said:
Probably nothing dangerous with that. But the brass is not good for anything anymore. Too short for .300Wby and would take a lot of work to get back to .300WM.

Not any different than a lot of other fire forming.

I'm guess'n there would be sufficient neck length for enough tension for the bullet…..but certainly not excessive tension. memtb

cdherman · Monday at 9:27 PM

This underlays one of my personal issues with screwing on barrels onto my Savage actions. There are no markings as to what the gun shoots on the outside. A proper smith will at least put the cartridge/ caliber on their work. In my experience. On my un-labeled guns, I ought to have a piece of tape or something under the barrel identifying the chambering. I sadly do not on a couple. Were I to die in an unfortunate event, my hunting buddies would pitch in to ID and dispose of my guns (this I tell the wife and the buddies as well).

But I ought to label stuff better.

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