[Complete the sentence:] "If I had a .460 Weatherby I _______________ ."

"...I'd load it to 2200 fps (low pressure and sweet to shoot!) and have a fine, fine rifle capable of any task indeed!"

I would rebarrel to 550 magnum

I would take it out and shoot it!

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Originally posted by Locoweed: "If I had a .460 Weatherby I _______________ ."

would sell it and put the proceeds toward a real gun.

In my case...."Since I have a 460 Wby, I think that I will take it to the range this weekend".

Landrum

Book an elephant hunt...jorge

I would book a hunt to Africa for the big stuff.

would use it as a fence post.

Agree with Ruger458No1....load it to the 22-2300 fps level and have a great rifle...that is what I do with mine! Let me see...500 gr .458 bullet at 2300 fps in a 460 Weatherby and everyone doesn't like it......500 gr. .458 bullet at 2300 in a .458 Lott and that is the greatest thing since sliced bread!
Mine is one a custom magnum Mauser type action if that makes a difference!

I'd load it down to 2200-2300fps and go buff hunting! (Of course, it would not be a Mark V ).

George

I was thinking 2200 fps with 600 grain bullets......

I'd sell it and use the proceeds to stock my 500 Jeffrey.

It would be rebarreled to a big barreled 338 Lapua, for long range fun shooting!

My shoulder would hurt.

...I would sell it and put the money on a hunt or building something else I wanted.

I already heve the .458, 500gr, @ 22-2300 covered with my Lott. (and it will use much less powder than a 460 Wby at the same level)

Hog Killer

shoot another cape buffalo!

I'd load it top of the chart and let people I don't like shoot it.

I would buy some new batteries for my electronic ear defenders

I'd flog that turkey and buy a dangerous game rifle.
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"Serious rifles have two barrels, everything else just burns gunpowder."

trade it at a gunshow as quickly as possible.-Rob

...I´d wonder how drunk I was when I bought it!

... a rabbithunt would never be the same

I'd load 300 gr sierra HPFN's as fast as they would go and shoot smaller than intended game

sell it to someone who really wanted one

...Be proud of that i finally had a real rifle made for men and not for democrats!!

One rifle for long shots and for close up shots. Put 500 grain Swift and Woodleigh soft in the rifle and and 550 grain woodleigh soft/solid for close up situations

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Originally posted by onefunzr2:
would use it as a fence post.

Ah, great. Now we have two of them.

I'd load it down...way down. I had one they're nasty.

I would sell it to Positron

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Originally posted by Gringo Cazador:
I'd load it top of the chart and let people I don't like shoot it.

hhmmmmmm, now that makes me wonder about all the times he's handed me his lastest kicker and asked me to shoot it!!

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Originally posted by jeffeosso:

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Originally posted by Gringo Cazador:
I'd load it top of the chart and let people I don't like shoot it.

hhmmmmmm, now that makes me wonder about all the times he's handed me his lastest kicker and asked me to shoot it!!

Just thinking the same thing

hey Gene,
at least I warned you NOT to leave your elbow up!!

jeffe

True, But he got me with one of his off the bench

use it as down payment on a nice searcy double in 470ne....

Jeffe, as I said on the phone...........your a crash dummy........ I've never been the first to shoot any of my big bores, you've had um on the sticks before I could get the screws tight , can't see why a 460 wby would be any differnt.

... probably keep it now that I own one for the third time. Just for kicks.

BTW, the only way to load one is with 500 grainers at 2500 fps, if you must use a 500 grainer, but the peerless load:

450 grainers at 2700 fps: North Fork SP/FP/CP, or Barnes TSX, or GSC FN and HV.

Weatherby you loadin' 450 or 500 grainers, you be usin' H4350 Extreme, yuh hee-uh?

What's wrong with the .460? Mine is on a Brno 602, built in the late 80's. My load is 500gr Hornady with 112gr of H4350 giving 2370fps.

If I had a 460 WBY I would...


1) Amuse myself with the sneers I get when I pull it out.
2) Humbly insist that number of rounds out the muzzle of the same caliber bore is much more highly correlated with good shot placement than the case size at the recoil end of the tube.
3) Proceed to bag all of the Big 5 on the same trip with it.

FWIW

use it as a down payment on a Searcy in .500 3" NE

Rich

Since I have a 375IMP and a 510 KX and a 458Lott I would have no use for one.

I would have a headache....BOOM...OUCH!