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The venturi shoulder on the rifle case looks like a Weatherby case design.
Most likely a 25-06 fired in a .257 Weatherby.
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Most likely a 25-06 fired in a .257 Weatherby.
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With that shoulder I am thinking 257 Weatherby. Once!Interesting post.
I have a piece of found brass that has quite a story to tell. I found it on the ground at my range. It was a .25-06 round that was shot through the wrong gun.
I have no idea what chamber it was fired in, other then "the wrong one".
I was at one of our local chain stores here in Houston several years back and they have long gun ammo out on the floor for customer selection. This obviously stuck on himself business salesman who must have been recently invited on an end of season deer hunt was shopping for a box of ammo for his borrowed rifle. The clerk came over and the guy told the clerk he was looking for a box of .270 ammo. The indifferent (kid) clerk handed him a box of .270 Winchester. By some miracle as the guy was leaving he asked the kid if Weatherby was a good rifle because the guy he borrowed it from had told the newbie he might sell him the gun if he liked it. I butted in about the difference and the kid acted like I'd asked him to mow my yard for free and walked off. No interest whatsoever in his job. The business salesman listened for a minute and I suggested he take his new/borrowed rifle making sure it was unloaded to one of the better gun store chains that employed people that could help him determine his exact caliber as Weatherby chambers rifles in both .270 Winchester and .270 Weatherby. He was still arrogantly indifferent until I said, "Blow up", and then he started to listen. Hope he did and hope he got his deer.It is really cool that you guys can ID the chamber just by a picture. I went and looked up a picture of a .257 Weatherby and it sure does look like that is what happened.
It was laying right next to a bench and the range is kept pretty clean so I guess it must have been pretty recent. I looked around for more and didn't see any so I guess whoever did it must have learned his lesson.