one of my favorite cartridge photos

[RCS]

I found most of these heavy caliber express cartridges many years ago at gun shows, glad that I saved them. not a complete set of British big cartridges but enough to be interesting


Left 303 SP, 500/450 Nitro, 475 No 2 Nitro, 470 H&H, 505 Gibbs, 500 Eley and 577 nitro

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[RASelkirk]

Meh, my shoulder hurts just looking at them!

Russ

[CINDERS]

I started to collect English NE's though stopped as the sheer scope of them plus the cost of your bigger rounds like a 600 Nitro Kynoch loaded will set you back around $100/Aud now.
I paid $80 for mine anyway there are probably a few I obtained after that pic but there are in Pic #1 - 470's, 500's, 505 Gibbs, 600, .33 BSA, 375's, 375 coiled and so on.
I got a 700 NE unloaded its pic #2 with a 303 MKVII as a scale the projie is a 1000Gns each loaded round is well north of a $100/Aud if you want to fire one.
Pic #3 though not NE is all of Roy Weatherby's cartridges less the 30/378 which I dearly wish to collect one day it also shows the discontinued .224WM also the 6.5/300 as that is fairly new.

I can attest to firing the 460 Weatherby from my friends rifle in its standard MkV stock is an event, much better with a custom stock and dead mule though still enough recoil to chip enamel from your teeth as I found out.

[browningautorifle]

I have a 600 Nitro, got it for free in the '80s. I see there's one in the center line there...picture one.

[RCS]

I believe the 505 Gibbs cartridge is the largest used in a bolt action magazine rifle ? There was years ago a custom gunsmith by the name of Wells (Arizona) that
did machine long magnum Mauser type actions for very large calibers

[CINDERS]

Lucky you Jim to procure a 600NE for free well done bloke.

You're correct RCS the 505 Gibbs is the largest round to put through a bolt gun I thought it was loosely modelled on the metric Schuler cartridge.

Here is a pic of the two in my collection the 505 Gibbs on the left and the 11.2mm x 72mm Schuler on the RT.