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30-378 Weatherby
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<blockquote data-quote="WildRose" data-source="post: 1492245" data-attributes="member: 30902"><p>Weatherby was far, far ahead of his time and it's taken the rest of the industry 40 plus years to replicate what were standard ballistics for the WBY's with modern cartridges. </p><p></p><p>His downfall was the proprietary ammo and case design. He thought by marketing to only high end clientele he could keep the company viable and a leading competitor where Ruger, Remington, and Winchester did much better mass marketing lesser rifles and rounds to a much larger group.</p><p></p><p>Basically until recent years there simply was nothing close to the 30-378 but today there are several that are basically ballistic twins or even exceed it's capabilities.</p><p></p><p>Personally I'm a huge believer in the law of diminishing returns and when you get to that size case pushing a .30 caliber bullet you've exceeded the threshold where that little bit of extra performance comes at a huge cost in ammo, reloading components, muzzle blast, and recoil.</p><p></p><p>Most people can't afford to practice enough with those bruisers to be really competent behind them and of course every round down range is pretty punishing to most shooters.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="WildRose, post: 1492245, member: 30902"] Weatherby was far, far ahead of his time and it's taken the rest of the industry 40 plus years to replicate what were standard ballistics for the WBY's with modern cartridges. His downfall was the proprietary ammo and case design. He thought by marketing to only high end clientele he could keep the company viable and a leading competitor where Ruger, Remington, and Winchester did much better mass marketing lesser rifles and rounds to a much larger group. Basically until recent years there simply was nothing close to the 30-378 but today there are several that are basically ballistic twins or even exceed it's capabilities. Personally I'm a huge believer in the law of diminishing returns and when you get to that size case pushing a .30 caliber bullet you've exceeded the threshold where that little bit of extra performance comes at a huge cost in ammo, reloading components, muzzle blast, and recoil. Most people can't afford to practice enough with those bruisers to be really competent behind them and of course every round down range is pretty punishing to most shooters. [/QUOTE]
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