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The light to medium calibers?
27/05/05 07:44 AM

In Taylor's book of African Rifles and Cartridges he gives short shrift indeed to the 400-360's. He has high praises for other cartridges in the same class. What's the diff? He claims the 400-360 did not suit. (I suspect it may have been due to poor bullets rather than the cartridge itself. It was an age when bullet performance was a bit spotty by today's standards.)

Today there is a dearth of information on the 400-360's. Yet I run across mention that they were Purdey's best selling caliber in the light to medium class for twenty or thirty years, even outselling the 303. Several makers chambered one variant or another.

I have seen a fair number of 400-360's on the market, including one single shot that had been refinished by the maker and had the deepest and most glorious case hardening colors by far that I have ever see. (I know the case coloring has nothing to do with the caliber, but this example was an order of magnitude above anything else I have ever seen, can't help mentiong it.)

So what leads to this situation?

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The light to medium calibers?	unspellable	27/05/05 07:44 AM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	CptCurl	30/05/05 11:48 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	500grains	31/05/05 12:06 AM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	mickey	31/05/05 01:18 AM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	unspellable	01/06/05 03:49 AM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	500Nitro	01/06/05 05:23 AM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	vigillinus	12/06/05 09:25 AM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	NitroX	07/02/06 01:46 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	MichiganShooter	08/02/06 01:21 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	NitroX	11/05/20 10:51 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	CptCurl	07/02/06 10:35 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	4seventy	29/05/05 06:05 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	500Nitro	29/05/05 07:20 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	Henrik	30/05/05 07:23 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	NitroX	30/05/05 07:26 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	Henrik	30/05/05 11:33 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	Marrakai	30/05/05 10:33 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	400NitroExpress	31/05/05 04:24 AM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	mickey	31/05/05 08:20 AM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	400NitroExpress	31/05/05 01:58 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	500Nitro	31/05/05 03:54 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	400NitroExpress	31/05/05 09:04 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	400NitroExpress	27/05/05 10:27 AM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	mickey	27/05/05 12:05 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	400NitroExpress	27/05/05 01:29 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	mickey	27/05/05 01:50 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	unspellable	28/05/05 03:35 AM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	400NitroExpress	28/05/05 07:12 AM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	NitroX	28/05/05 02:11 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	400NitroExpress	29/05/05 09:04 AM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	CptCurl	28/05/05 10:21 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	NitroX	07/02/06 01:48 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	bulldog563	07/02/06 10:15 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	NitroX	29/05/05 02:11 AM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	CptCurl	29/05/05 04:18 AM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	mickey	29/05/05 02:03 AM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	Chasseur	28/05/05 11:58 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	500Nitro	28/05/05 09:10 PM
Re: The light to medium calibers?	500grains	28/05/05 03:36 PM

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