http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/showthread.php?t=39038

This is a dead end link.

RM

There are a lot of guys on these forums who are more than willing to help, but not if it requires registration on another forum. Give a direct link, or a photo.

Ray

Post a photo in the cartridge collecting forum.

Sorry it is working on my computer both the link and the picture.



http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/attachment.php?atta...d=10592&d=1222359591

I'd be happy to try and identify it...but not if I have to bother to register on that Forum, sorry!

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Sorry it is working on my computer both the link and the picture.



http://forums.outdoorsdirectory.com/attachment.php?atta...d=10592&d=1222359591

-because the log-in and photo are cached in your computer, but not in ours.

When I find these posts, I always wonder is it a request for assistance, or a ploy to increase hits/membership in a forum.

Louis

You have a paranoid mind.

I think the same thing, BTW.

I've also gotten some bad viruses registering on some of those sites. Especially the porn ones.

Ray

Can you still not see it?

Here are the dimensions. The box is Herters brand marked "300 Magnum"

It is by far closest to the 300 Win mag.

Some cartridge drawings will not show a belt at the bottom even for a belted case.

Mystery cartridge Length 2.604 ......................300 Win Mag = 2.620
Base .528 .................................................. ........ .532
shoulder length 2.192 ............................................... 2.196
thickness at shoulder .486 ......................................... .489



The post was in the reloading section which I did not know was a members only area.

Dimensionally it is within reasonable tolerance to be a 300 Win Mag as long as that badly drawn rim is actually a belt. If its not that, its something I've not come across. Any chance of getting your mate to get a better pic. If its the auction on Gunbroker for a box of 180grs & one of 165 gr its cheap enough, go get it anyway, if its something strange & rare you'd be bound to do well out of it.
Steve

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The box is Herters brand marked "300 Magnum"

At one time Herters was hellbent to outdo the Weatherby classic cartridges and they introduced their own line of propriatarity cartridges and in most cases were names something like the "Herters powermag".....or something to that effect.....IMO there is no real collectors value as Herters wasn't a collectible entity....there may be a few collectors....but darn few and the price isn't worth searching out.

If someone here had a .300 Herters whizbangmagnum for sale, I'd offer enough to be able to rebarrel it to something sellable.

Could it be the 300 Alaskan?

Is it just me??? I still haven't seen a photo of that cartridge. That drawing doesn't tell me much.



Ray

A photo would be mirror of a 300 win mag but the dimensions dont match exactly.

It's a .300 Winchester Magnum. The diminsions you give are well within manufacturing tolerances.