Posted on 09/10/2007 10:01:55 AM PDT by skeptoid
.460 Weatherby Magnum is a whole lot of kaboomyow but did not ever before hear of using it on sea mammals.
It used to be the most powerful of the Weatherby belted magnums.
Dang, those are high class whale hunters, if we belive Fox News, they must have used a Weatherby MACHINE GUN. Apparently Fox has some producers who are stuck on stupid.
It doesn't sound like these guys were hunting like their ancestors did. Since the tribe has violated the treaty, the US should declare it void.
From the article: “the authority to hunt as their ancestors did”. Don’t recall many rifles being used by the Injuns 1000 years ago or motorized watercraft.
This is a completely disgusting group of people. Humans had a tradition of buy and selling other humans for thousands of years too. It doesn’t mean that it should continue just because they had always done it.
I watched a friend fire a .458 Win Ruger #1 from a standing position. It spun him around about 90 degrees, he was stunned for a few seconds, and then he said “That wasn’t so bad”. We never did let him live that down.
I fired the .460 prone with ear plugs and cups. It moved me back a couple of inches. No black and blue mark, tho. Just good instruction.
If they were from Russia he'd have said Vodka-
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