I was just reading on one of our other forums about the best way to neck up a .22-250 case, which reminded me of a funny incident that I encountered a few years back.
I was on a hunt for Alaska moose, where I was flown into a base camp with some other hunters that I had never meet before. Upon arrival, the first order of business was for everyone to shoot their rifles to make sure that they were still sighted in correctly. So I wasted no time and was pleased with my result. Next up was a guy that we’ll simply call John, well John was a big shot corporate type, who hadn’t really done very much hunting or shooting for that matter but he had always wanted to harvest a moose.
John removed his rifle from the case, which a beautiful pre 64 Winchester all nicely decked out with a custom walnut stock and a premium scope and stepped up to our make shift bench and proceeded to fire a round at the target which was about 100 yards out. The shot hit the target in the very upper left corner, so we helped him make a few adjustments and he shot again, this time he didn’t hit the target at all, so another shot was fired, still no hit. Next we moved the target to 50 yards, more shots were fired and more adjustments made. At this stage I examined John’s rifle and started looking for loose screws or something to explain the situation. Next I picked up a piece of the fired brass and didn’t see anything visibly wrong but on looking at the head stamp something caught my eye. ‘John’ I said why would you be hunting moose with a .264 Win Mag. John gruffly replied, this happens to be a .338 WINCHESTER MAGNUM, I would never hunt moose with my .264 Win. Mag
It seems that our big shoot moose hunter, also owned a . 264 Win. Mag. and had managed to get the some of the ammo for it mixed in with his .338 Win.Mag. ammo, which fit nicely into the chamber of his .338, resulting in some very nicely fire formed brass. Luckily John had another box of the correct ammunition, which he now had to use a lot of to get back on target.
To add insult to injury. John’s guide later reported to me, that on the second morning of John’s hunt, the guide heard something outside and peeked from the tent to discover a huge bull moose just outside. When the guide attempted to awake John, it was nothing doing, John simply couldn’t become conscious enough to benefit from this wonderful gift, and went home empty handed.
I was on a hunt for Alaska moose, where I was flown into a base camp with some other hunters that I had never meet before. Upon arrival, the first order of business was for everyone to shoot their rifles to make sure that they were still sighted in correctly. So I wasted no time and was pleased with my result. Next up was a guy that we’ll simply call John, well John was a big shot corporate type, who hadn’t really done very much hunting or shooting for that matter but he had always wanted to harvest a moose.
John removed his rifle from the case, which a beautiful pre 64 Winchester all nicely decked out with a custom walnut stock and a premium scope and stepped up to our make shift bench and proceeded to fire a round at the target which was about 100 yards out. The shot hit the target in the very upper left corner, so we helped him make a few adjustments and he shot again, this time he didn’t hit the target at all, so another shot was fired, still no hit. Next we moved the target to 50 yards, more shots were fired and more adjustments made. At this stage I examined John’s rifle and started looking for loose screws or something to explain the situation. Next I picked up a piece of the fired brass and didn’t see anything visibly wrong but on looking at the head stamp something caught my eye. ‘John’ I said why would you be hunting moose with a .264 Win Mag. John gruffly replied, this happens to be a .338 WINCHESTER MAGNUM, I would never hunt moose with my .264 Win. Mag
It seems that our big shoot moose hunter, also owned a . 264 Win. Mag. and had managed to get the some of the ammo for it mixed in with his .338 Win.Mag. ammo, which fit nicely into the chamber of his .338, resulting in some very nicely fire formed brass. Luckily John had another box of the correct ammunition, which he now had to use a lot of to get back on target.
To add insult to injury. John’s guide later reported to me, that on the second morning of John’s hunt, the guide heard something outside and peeked from the tent to discover a huge bull moose just outside. When the guide attempted to awake John, it was nothing doing, John simply couldn’t become conscious enough to benefit from this wonderful gift, and went home empty handed.
