this is posted with no explanation

[bored383]

There will be no further elaboration.

[DocsMachine]

Thirteen years ahead of ya.



Doc.

[Reflex0283]

The first example is actually pretty neat, if I remember correctly the Eargesplitten Loudenboomer was a firearms magazine's attempt at breaking 5,000fps with a wildcat cartridge back in the '60s, so they took a .378 wetherby magnum and necked it down to .22

It "only" hit 4,600fps

Modern shitposting has left us with creations such as the .17 Incinerator (.50 BMG necked down to .17)

[DocsMachine]

As I recall (my dad was a reloader) the Loudenboomer had measurable throat erosion after just three shots.

That is, the barrel, right where the bullet enters the rifling, had been partially burned away by the sustained hot-gas blast.

Most barrels won't see that kind of wear for thousands of rounds. The Loudenboomer saw it after just three.

Doc.

[heit1_32]

We need a Doc's weekly fun fact post 🙂

[Rainmaker]

I would absolutely tune in for this heit1_32 DocsMachine

[StaticShocked]

I third this. Weekly random fun fact post by Doc.

[Tarsun2]

that is crazy. i wanted a 22-250 just to have but didnt have a practical application for it; other than an expensive way to put holes in paper. from my understanding, any faster than that and the projectile just fragments on impact.

[bored383]

Get the .22-250, who needs a practical application to have something fun? Especially here, lol! I have a .375H&H, just for fun. I am never going to go on an African Safari, especially after reading Capstick's books and Patterson's account of the lions of Tsavo, and it is damn expensive to shoot. But at the same time it is a lot of fun touching off that much power.

[DocsMachine]

[...]and it is damn expensive to shoot. But at the same time it is a lot of fun touching off that much power.

-I had a chance to shoot a Ruger #1 falling-block (single shot rifle, think a more modern equivalent to Quigleys ) with a heavily hotrodded .378/.338 wildcat. That is, a .378 Weatherby necked down to take a .338 bullet. The case was "improved", which for the non-reloaders, means the case walls were straightened and the shoulder pushed out and squared up a little, so the case could hold more powder.

With a 34" barrel, it had a 220-grain bullet leaving the muzzle at just over 3,800 FPS. For you non-gun types, that's a bullet four times the weight of a typical .223, going around 600 FPS faster.

That, as the old saying went, was a gun that killed on one end and maimed on the other.

Doc.

[bored383]

my .375H&H is a CZ 550 . . . it is a nice, beefy Mauser action rifle. It is honestly more pleasant to shoot than the average Mosin. It has heft without being heavy, and the proportions on the butt provide ample surface area. that recoil pad is thicc

[RuleOfSines]

They shoulda held the Fokker back a little, hit the high note too soon

[Tarsun2]

Doc, thats insanity. Faster than a 223, 308, and 30-06....
another i wanted was the fn 57 but again, price and practicality. lol

[Cirtem]

57 was great on paper and concept, but never adopted because of lack of support. - Industry guy of 15+ years.

[Cirtem]

Folks that write NIJ standards are like

[DocsMachine]

Doc, thats insanity. Faster than a 223, 308, and 30-06....

-That was the idea. The owner was a big game hunter, and there's places where the open tundra up here that won't let you get close to the animal. You needed an accurate, long-range rifle that fires something that can still carry enough energy to do the job when it gets there- and this was years before modern options like the .338 Lapua.

I was told that on the trip after that shooting session, he bagged a near-trophy caribou at 550 paces.

Oh, and he was pushing the pressures so high, that the cases could only be reloaded about three times, before the primers wouldn't stay seated anymore. Last I heard, he'd had some custom cases made, that had screw-on stainless steel rims. Which also allowed the use of a primer tube- that extended the ignition into the middle of the powder, so more of it would burn before the bullet left the barrel.

That alone was worth about 200FPS, as I understood it.

Doc.

[Axel]

Great, first AI comes for my day job and now this