Game: Guess that cartridge

Not ackley but certainly a wildcat of a very old parent case. The shoulder is not unconventional. Just reflections making it looked stepped/wavy

Is it based on the Nitro Express case?

What is the Nitro Express case?

Correction, I mean based off the .375 H&H case?

Niet.

Is it .257 or larger?

It does look small, like 6.5 or 7mm eh?

Its .338!

.338 winmag?

It is the .338 Sniper, a wild cat of the 585 Hubel Express

Apparently the 585 throws a 750gr pill at over 2700fps.

The 308 just doesn’t look right in that picture. The shoulder is too steep and the neck too thin compared to the body. The 416 is more my mental pic of a 308.

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Exactly. We all have mental imagery of a belted magnum reference size being the 300 Win Mag etc…

The parent case of the HE is the 585 Nyati to which Ed Hubel added a belt and sized the rim for the 505 Gibbs boltface. The Nyati coming from the 700NE which is barely 25 thou narrower across the case head. And thats why it looks so wrong!

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Might have already been up but ehh ill chuck it up anyway

Everything looks like a 308 to me… :rofl::face_with_monocle:

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Bit smaller

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Here’s one, but the caveat is i don’t actually know what it is. No head stamp.




Forums.NitroExpress.com

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So i should if only put up the first pic then??

I don’t even like this game. lol

How much fun would it be to play with though!
I’ve always wanted one of the Greener martini harpoon guns, but I’d settle for this thing.

meh, its been done