Anyone Shoot or Hunt with 460 Wby?

[BarnesX.308]

I' ve seen the figures on paper but don' t hear too much about real-world hunting experience with this round. The original claims were 2700fps for a 500 grain bullet. I think they' ve brought it down by 50-100fps but it' s still a cannon. Anyone ever shoot this round or hunt with it?

Scott Meier
White Oak Lodge

[James B]

I had a 416 Remington Magnum but thats as big as I ever owned. I shot a 458 Win Mag that belonged to a guy I used to chronograph for and He and I took care of the range. Mowing and workiin on tha tables and cleaning up the glass where morons shot at glass bottles[:@]. A dealer told me once that if I ever shot a 460 Magnum, not to do it off the bench without recoil protection. One look at the shells and I would know better.

[diyj98]

It' s a good gun for women or small kids on small to medium game, but it' s not really in the class for whitetail or anything bigger

Sorry I don' t have any experience with it, but it' s a cannon. Probably not something I' ll ever actually have a need for, but it would be fun to play with.

Oh yea, you can feel the pain. A guy in my club hunts with one in Africa. He went thru several scopes, cause they wouldn' t hold zero over the Recoil. Leupold fixed them, but he finally got a Enertl and it has held zero for over a year. Its one of those guns you want to shoot standing up.

[Vapodog]

It' s a gun designed for the ego rather than a specific type of game.

The .375 H&H is well adjusted to take all dangerous game on the planet, and has done so for almost a century.

Moving up from there includes the .416 Rigby and .416 Rem Mag.

Tyrannosaurus Rex don' t exist here any more.....sadly!!! It would have given legitimacy to the .460 Wby mag.....and then only if they came up with CRF!!!!!

[akbound]

In tropical climates many of the Weatherby cartridges, (as well as the .416 Remington), are prone to suffer from excessive pressure. The operating pressures of all of these factory loaded cartridges are maximum...and when coupled with really high temperatures encountered at times in Africa....they have developed reputations - less than favorable - with professional hunters on that continent.

The .416 Rigby, with its extrodinarily large case compared to ballistics, was initially loaded, (and continues to be loaded), more conservatively and does NOT have problems with excessive pressures in Africa' s heat.

For more info go to:

http://www.african-hunter.com/lessons_learned.htm

The .375 H&H also has a good record of " behaving" itself in tropical climates. Because it too was NOT loaded " to the gills" by the factories.

As you will note in the article that Weatherby cartridges behave themselves when handloaded down to allow for the increased heat of Africa. I don' t know for sure...but I suspect that any ammo loaded by " A" Square would be just fine, (Weatherby or not)!

I can' t personally attest to these problems because the vast majority of my experience is in either temperate or cold climates. But I have heard and read enough, (from people I trust), that some cartridges, (as loaded by factories), are prone to high pressure problems...because of their NORMAL operating pressure! Whether you would choose to give merit to this information or not....is a personal decision!

Good luck!

P.S. I have not shot a .460 Weatherby....but have shot a .50 BMG....both rifle and machinegun!

[Snowboarder]

I have shot this bad boy..I regularly shoot my 375 H&H but was a little intimidated by this canon. First time I shot it was at a range practicing with my #1 Ruger. The guy offered to have me try out his Weatherby and he try mine. I was only going to shoot it once just for the experience but had to shoot it twice because I could not believe anything could kick that hard. Second time it buried the front sling swivel in my finger of my left hand. I went back to shooting my 375 and it felt like shooting a .22

[BarnesX.308]

I' ll probably never shoot one, let alone own one, but it does make you wonder. Kind of like a Ferrari or Porsche - the speed limit' s 65 so having a car that goes 190 is not necessary but people still spend $100,000 or double that to own one.

Scott Meier
White Oak Lodge

[akbound]

Once you' ve driven on the Autobahn....you understand!!! Big boys....big toys!!!! Besides, sometimes it' s the anticipation that really counts. We can' t live all of our dreams...but we should never stop dreaming!!!

P.S. I haven' t owned a .460 Weatherby either!

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