Harvesting of bison, elk, moose and brown bear can be accomplished by reducing the performance of the cartridge to match the requirements.
#Weatherby mark v 460 full#
North American big game does not require the full power of the. As with any rifle cartridge that produces heavy recoil, recovery time between subsequent shots should be taken into account when choosing such cartridges for hunting dangerous game. 460 Weatherby Magnum is powerful cartridge, it cannot make up for inexperience or poor marksmanship.
The Makah people of the Pacific Northwest have used this rifle cartridge for decades hunting whales. 460 Weatherby is one of the very few rifle cartridges approved by the International Whaling Commission for the harvesting of whales. Bullet ideal for lion or leopard begin with the 350-grain (23 g) bullets. 460 Weatherby is used for hunting leopard or lion, a rapidly expanding bullet is normally used. Lion are thin skinned and weigh no more than 600 lb (270 kg) while leopards weigh no more than 250 lb (110 kg). 460 Weatherby is overly powerful for lion or leopard. Expanding bullets should be of the controlled expansion variety. A combination of solids and expanding bullets may be used against these big game. Generally, elephants require solid bullets.īullets in the 450-500-grain (29-32 g) range are excellent for African cape buffalo and rhinoceros. It has more than the required energy necessary to drive 500–600-grain (32-39 g) bullets into the elephant's vital organs from any angle provided that bullet is up to the task. It is designed to provide the ultimate in stopping power against elephant, cape buffalo and the rhinoceros. 460 Weatherby Magnum is primarily a thick skinned dangerous game cartridge. Many hunters and guides carry this firearm exclusively for back-up work. 460 Weatherby Magnum has few peers for stopping dangerous African game. Typically a full metal jacketed or monolithic solid type bullet will penetrate more than 40 in (1.0 m) when impacting a dangerous game animal such as the Cape Buffalo or African Elephant. This cartridge is very accurate despite its size. It also prevents the hunter from getting his eyebrow cut by the scope, which is common with a firearm with as much recoil as this one. Open sights tend to sight in quicker than scoped rifles and for this reason open sighted rifles are preferred by hunters for back-up work-when the hunter and/or guide must mount and discharge their firearm to ensure a charging game animal does not hurt a client or ensure a clean kill of a wounded game animal. 460 is primarily an elephant gun and is typically equipped with only open sights. A factory powder charge for this cartridge is about 115 grains (7.5 g). For that reason, many gun owners reload their cartridges with a lighter-than-factory charge. The recoil of the full-power loads is very punishing and if the gun has a scope, scope cuts on the forehead are common.
460 is the world's most powerful commercial cartridge, in terms of both velocity and bullet weight. 378 Weatherby Magnum case was based on a belted version of the. This case is now made commercially from virgin brass. 378 Weatherby Magnum necked up to accept the. 460 Weatherby Magnum is a rifle cartridge, developed by Roy Weatherby in 1958.
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