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14-08-2022, 10:19 #11
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Re: Spending time with the .30-378 Weatherby.
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14-08-2022, 10:58 #12
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14-08-2022, 11:01 #13
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14-08-2022, 18:31 #14
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Re: Spending time with the .30-378 Weatherby.
Hunted near Ficksburg with a gent who had a 30-378 built for him by a local gunsmith. He contacted Gerhard Schultz (GS Custom) who designed a 178gr HV bullet. If I remember corectly it was moving at 3400fps. The rifle had a longish barrel and was fairly heavy. We were hunting blesbuck and BlackWB. Being able to shoot far, he proceeded to wound a tagged blesbuck that was not on the menu. In pursuing the the animal he got in a shot and it happened to be the second tagged one. In the end his sniping cost him double the normal price for those two animals. The "make sure of your target" was very appropriate.
The other hunters jokingly remarked that his rifle only needed wheels, to be classified as a cannon.
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15-08-2022, 17:42 #15
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Re: Spending time with the .30-378 Weatherby.
Well, dead is dead. There is no such thing as deader. I have killed animals as large and at the same distance, just as dead with a 6.5 Creedmoor.
However, there is also this...
Energy bro, energy, every single proponent of the “the energy doesn’t matter” sure as hell would chose to be shot with a 147gr 9mm round instead of a 147gr 7mm rifle round.
Through the years I have tried to explain this many times in various different threads, but people wants to hear none of it, they just say energy don’t kill.
https://www.gunsite.co.za/forums/sho...-article/page4
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15-08-2022, 18:15 #16
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Re: Spending time with the .30-378 Weatherby.
In the mid 90s as a teen we had a lot of Americans come hunt on the farm. A couple arrived with a his and hers in 30-378 Weatherby Mag and a 300 Weatherby Mag. As the evening grew on our way home a porcupine crossed the road. Farming potatoes and maize my old said shoot!. Don't know what grain bullet was loaded in the 30-378 but just a few quills remained. Prob a 20 meter shot.
Years later guiding a client on lion up north I borrowed a camp rifle. Turned out to be a 30-378. Being early days in my big 5 experience I think I was more nervous of the recoil vs the lion.
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16-08-2022, 08:13 #17
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Re: Spending time with the .30-378 Weatherby.
Not permissible as the bore is too small, but a 30-378 would (should) be really deadly on the big cats (and porcupine...) Not as follow up rifle, but as first shot rifle I can just think that the internal damage on soft skinned "big 5" will be more than enough gun. The energy carried and expansion of bullets due to high velocity might just kill them better than the medium bores?
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16-08-2022, 08:32 #18
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Re: Spending time with the .30-378 Weatherby.
Energy is how you use it, in this specific scenario the energy was all used to add distance, you will notice the impact velocity was the same as a 308 would have been at bushveld distances, I am referring to the bullet as posted in the bullet performance database.
Most ordinary folk have this great misunderstanding when comparing cartridges of the same caliber, roughly speaking each step up in the 30 caliber tree just adds another 100m for the same impact velocity, or it adds more energy at the same distance.
Personally I would have loved to see a side by side comparison if the hunter was also able to shoot a waterbuck bull at 100m, with the impact velocity still sitting above 3000ft/s, then you would have seen sparks flying, or pieces of animal.
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16-08-2022, 09:19 #19
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Re: Spending time with the .30-378 Weatherby.
The only animal shot with this caliber at close range was a baboon at ±130m. Death was instantaneous, exit hole was the size of a golf ball. Nothing that a taxidermist won't be able to fix. Had the bullet been a Hornady ELD-X things would have been different, and instead of a taxidermist a magician might have been required.
Of course a waterbuck bull at this range would have offered a lot more resistance to the bullet.
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18-08-2022, 15:54 #20
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Re: Spending time with the .30-378 Weatherby.
Always been a calibre that has piqued my interest! Apparently developed to test bullets and ballistics at 5000 and 6000ft/s for the US military.
A friend has one that he uses mostly for following up wounded animals in the Karoo. Its 3rd barrel has now given up the ghost... He's gone down the 338 Lapua route rather than hassle with a new barrel for now.
A tight twist barrel and a heavy mono would make it a deadly long range calibre. But given the short barrel life, expensive and rare cases and the recoil/muzzle blast it really is not a logical choice. Kinda like an old man buying an Italian supercar! Or Treeman's topfueler!
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