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fourbore
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Re: The 600 Overkill....
31/01/12 08:29 AM

I question the logic of the 600Ok and after some heated debate on another forum, I have come to the conclusion this is primarily a bragging rights round. Before you accuse me of stating the obvious, several owners vehemently argue this was not the case (ie the OK was practical hunting round), so its remains just IMHO.

Before, I say more, I certainly see no harm in owning a gun for fun or bragging rights and probably 50% of the guns I own have little (truth be told) hunting or defense value. This all looks like just more good clean shooting fun to me. I saw some images posted of pigs shot with the Ok. That sure looked like some great fun. As it might be with 350 gr bullets in a 458 win mag.

The way I see it, the 500 A square and 550 mag had already been developed based on the 460 Wby case. And it turns out several 577 were also done on custom straight sided belted cases. All of these could be chambered in a CZ550 within a "staggered" magazine and loaded (or loaded down) to traditionally accepted (IMHO reasonable) elephant/buffalo hunting ballistics.

In a guest for something, new and bigger, the 600 Ok was born. IMHO. We also had the 577 Trex as well as all the above mentioned new rounds. I think the goal was to beat the Trex and be flat out as powerful as possible. Why wiki would state that elephant hunting had anything to do with this idea is a mystery to me?

The round is highly rebated (and pretty fat) which necessitates a single column feed. It it really a 2 shot, unless you can take pains to open the floor plate and bottom feed another round. You can see the notorious video of what happens when you fire a Trex without a muzzle brake. The Trex is driving 750 grains at 2400 fps. Imagine what the effect would be driving 900 grains at 2400fps, unbraked! In practical terms a muzzle brake is needed. Who wants to stand next to that in the game field?

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The 600 Overkill....	Ripp	28/01/12 10:14 PM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	Ben	28/01/12 10:19 PM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	Ripp	28/01/12 10:51 PM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	Mike_Bailey	28/01/12 11:23 PM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	458Win	29/01/12 06:30 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	NitroX	28/05/14 12:16 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	DarylS	28/05/14 01:41 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	Ahmed577	28/05/14 02:19 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	Ripp	28/05/14 05:14 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	Mike_Bailey	29/01/12 06:49 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	458Win	29/01/12 07:35 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	DarylS	29/01/12 08:14 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	458Win	30/01/12 05:08 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	Omnivorous_Bob	24/02/13 09:57 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	Ripp	21/05/14 06:35 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	bigdog	21/05/14 09:13 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	Ripp	21/05/14 10:52 PM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	tinker	21/05/14 09:23 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	mauserand9mm	21/05/14 10:07 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	tinker	21/05/14 10:59 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	gryphon	30/01/12 09:28 PM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	Ripp	31/01/12 03:46 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	fourbore	31/01/12 08:29 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	gryphon	31/01/12 09:28 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	tinker	31/01/12 01:34 PM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	Mike_Bailey	31/01/12 11:16 PM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	Ash	01/02/12 08:00 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	fourbore	01/02/12 10:33 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	tinker	01/02/12 03:42 PM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	kamilaroi	01/02/12 07:49 PM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	500Boswell	28/05/14 03:18 PM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	chuck375	29/05/14 06:50 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	tinker	29/05/14 09:13 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	chuck375	03/06/14 01:02 PM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	bigdog	10/06/14 08:39 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	Ripp	28/05/14 03:59 PM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	NitroX	28/05/14 12:14 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	sbs470	01/02/12 10:24 PM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	bigdog	15/12/12 11:18 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	bobrhess	10/05/13 06:16 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	Ben	10/05/13 06:40 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	hubel458	11/05/13 08:51 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	bigdog	20/05/14 09:41 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	FrankMartinez	30/12/12 05:26 PM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	Dresden	19/02/13 01:23 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	NitroX	28/05/14 12:07 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	DarylS	19/02/13 03:09 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	tinker	19/02/13 09:44 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	andrevannibos	31/01/12 01:27 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	gryphon	29/01/12 08:31 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	paradox_	20/05/14 01:36 PM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	Ben	29/01/12 09:34 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	tinker	29/01/12 10:59 AM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	Ash	29/01/12 11:12 PM
Re: The 600 Overkill....	Con	30/01/12 08:22 PM

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