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They could call it the .500 Weatherby if they wanted to. The demand is certainly there. | ||
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Two reasons: Weatherby didn't invent it; A-Square did. It is doubtful A-Square desires to surrender the rights to their cartridge to allow Weatherby to change the name. Still... With Weatherby's love of all things fast and overly powerful, I'm surprised they haven't picked up the 500 A-Square as well. This would seem to the logical extension of the 460 - necking it up to .50 caliber. Jason "Chance favors the prepared mind." | |||
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500gn, I'm with you. A fine cartidge, in keeping with their "biggest/badest" persona, practical, they could claim ol'Roy invented it in '47, vastly better lineage than an a^2, and they could sell even more of their 2-down push feeds. Having said that, I have my Dad's W.German 300WM that I dearly love, but hunt with other guns. Bob DRSS "If we're not supposed to eat animals, why are they made out of meat?" "PS. To add a bit of Pappasonian philosophy: this single barrel stuff is just a passing fad. Bolt actions and single shots will fade away as did disco, the hula hoop, and bell-bottomed pants. Doubles will rule the world!" | |||
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More important they should chamber 550 Mag.....Ed. MZEE WA SIKU | |||
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My thoghts exactly! They would not have to deal with another brands name, then. AND it is the biggest! Now, why Dan would suggest a DG chambering in a Weatherby, is to me a far more interesting question!  Bent Fossdal Reiso 5685 Uggdal Norway | |||
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Actually, wells' invented the 510x460.. AA just copied it and yeah, if you want a monster, either 550 will do it for you... remember, heh, before we start blasting push feeds, recall that all double rifles are push feeds!!! jeffe opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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The bottom rifle in this pic was built in California sometime during the 60s, has no markings on the 30" Pendleton braked barrel, but the dies are marked 500-460Wby. The California seller speculated it is a Weatherby experimental rifle but could not confirm it. Is built on a plain-jane myrtle stock, Brevex action like the first 460s, polished similar to same period Weatherbys:  NRA Life Member, Band of Bubbas Charter Member, PGCA, DRSS. Shoot & hunt with vintage classics. | |||
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What rights? A2 has no legal protection for the dimension of the 500 A2. Anyone can build rifles to that spec. and call them something else if they want. | |||
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I'm sure they based their decision on current market trends, and sales of similar cartridges in their lineup. They must figure that if the .460Wby. hasn't taken the world by storm, a .500Wby (as offered by Weatherby in of their Mark V rifles) wouldn't either. George  | |||
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Neal said they kind of sneered at teh 550s as well... bc is aint got a webby shoulder opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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Usually I would agree but after the Rick Jamison incedent, I don't know!!  | |||
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Its my understanding that Wby chambers rifels in 338/06 Asquare, they may even make brass for it with wby headstamp, my guess not much demand for 500. Billy, High in the shoulder (we band of bubbas) | |||
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I think they should so it, if for no other reason to give some another reason the bitch about the Mark V push feed in a DG rifle! | |||
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I think weatherby is in trouble financially and doubt they will be introducing any new rifles anytime soon. Most of their sales come from the Vanguard line which they import from Europe. Not much money in the Mark V any more. To be honest I wonder if they are soon to fallow Winchester to the grave. ****************************************************************** R. Lee Ermey: "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle." ****************************************************************** We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!! 'What the hell could possibly go wrong?' | |||
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You had best check your info. The Vanguards are made in Japan by the same firm that makes the Howa. William Berger True courage is being scared to death but saddling up anyway. - John Wayne The courageous may not live forever, but the timid do not live at all. | |||
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weatherby has already perfected the ultimate DG cartridge (460). Can't see how they can improve on that! | |||
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  yes, they perfected the worst possible DGR round and rifle at the same time. Now, load it down to 2300-2400 fps, and you have a good round.... the invented the perfect big bore CASE... blow it straight, trim it off to 2.65" and put a 700gr pill in it... no, wait, that's the 550express..... jeffe opinions vary band of bubbas and STC hunting Club Information on Ammoguide about the416AR, 458AR, 470AR, 500AR What is an AR round? Case Drawings 416-458-470AR and 500AR. 476AR, http://www.weaponsmith.com | |||
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My mistake...I knew it was over the pond, just picked the wrong pond! ****************************************************************** R. Lee Ermey: "The deadliest weapon in the world is a Marine and his rifle." ****************************************************************** We're going to be "gifted" with a health care plan we are forced to purchase and fined if we don't, Which purportedly covers at least ten million more people, without adding a single new doctor, but provides for 16,000 new IRS agents, written by a committee whose chairman says he doesn't understand it, passed by a Congress that didn't read it but exempted themselves from it, and signed by a President, with funding administered by a treasury chief who didn't pay his taxes, for which we'll be taxed for four years before any benefits take effect, by a government which has already bankrupted Social Security and Medicare, all to be overseen by a surgeon general who is obese, and financed by a country that's broke!!!!! 'What the hell could possibly go wrong?' | |||
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