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December 9, 2011
The .700 WTF : For Hunting Dinosaurs
File under: "If it is worth doing it is worth overdoing."The cartridge, named the .700 WTF ("What The F...") and is made by fire forming a .50 BMG brass case, trimming it to 3" in length and then sizing it. The round is loaded with a 1132 grain paper patched .700 lead cast bullet. -- The Firearm Blog
Posted by gerardvanderleun at December 9, 2011 11:18 AM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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There was a time in this fair Republic when anyone could buy an even more powerful weapon through the mail, for less than $200:
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Posted by: Skorpion at December 11, 2011 6:56 PM
Yeah. That's very nice. Clever thing paper-patching it into the case, He avoided all kinds of mischief by using that good-ol technique. You could certainly hunt T-Rex with that: at 1132gr at 1600fps, you've got about 4 tons of muzzle energy--all N American big game can be dropped at one ton of muzzle energy. It takes about 2 tons of muzzle energy to drop an elephant reliably. This is an elephant gun x 2. >>this is with .700 cal slugs that weigh 1132gr which means you only get 6 boolits out of a pound of lead
Posted by: Gray at December 11, 2011 7:40 PM
".700 cal slugs that weigh 1132gr which means you only get 6 boolits out of a pound of lead
Actually .700 is slightly smaller than a 12 ga. (.720?) The lead used for gauge determination is round ball. (Useful tidbit fot TEOTWAWKI; Partisan types have been known to fabricate their own 12 ga shotguns from 3/4" pipe) I still would like to have a WTF.700 in my safe, just in case of an alien, or WTF, attack.
Posted by: Roger Drew Williams at December 13, 2011 5:54 PM