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The performance level of the Weatherby cartridge comes at a cost: recoil. The recoil of the .460 Weatherby Magnum is severe. The cartridge generates close to 100 ft⋅lbf (140 J) of energy. This is in keeping with Newton's Third Law of Motion: Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. As performance levels rise, so does the recoil.
.256 Winchester Magnum.257 Roberts.257 Weatherby Magnum.26 Nosler.260 Remington.264 LBC-AR.264 Winchester Magnum.270 Weatherby Magnum.270 Winchester.270 Winchester Short Magnum.275 H&H Magnum.275 No 2 Magnum.275 Rigby.276 Enfield.276 Pedersen.277 FURY.277 Wolverine.28 Nosler.280 Ackley Improved.280 British.280 Flanged.280 Jeffery.280 Remington
Furthermore, recoil-operated firearm designs have moving barrels (e.g. most pistols or the Barrett M82 rifle). Muzzle threads are situated at the muzzle end of the barrel and can be used for mounting accessories such as a flash hider , suppressor or muzzle brake (compensator).
This is a table of selected pistol/submachine gun and rifle/machine gun cartridges by common name. Data values are the highest found for the cartridge, and might not occur in the same load (e.g. the highest muzzle energy might not be in the same load as the highest muzzle velocity, since the bullet weights can differ between loads).
Once he returned to the United Kingdom, he necked-up the .416 Rigby case to .458 caliber, resulting in a cartridge remarkably similar dimensionally to the older .460 Weatherby Magnum. The new cartridge fired a .458 in (11.6 mm) bullet weighing 480 gr (31 g) at a velocity of 2,378 ft/s (725 m/s) from a 25 in (635 mm) barrel.
7mm Weatherby Magnum.30-378 Weatherby Magnum.224 Weatherby Magnum.240 Weatherby Magnum.257 Weatherby Magnum.270 Weatherby Magnum.300 Weatherby Magnum; 6.5-300 Weatherby Magnum.338-378 Weatherby Magnum.340 Weatherby Magnum.375 Weatherby Magnum.378 Weatherby Magnum.416 Weatherby Magnum.460 Weatherby Magnum
.338-378 Weatherby Magnum.340 Weatherby Magnum.350 Griffin & Howe Magnum.350 Remington Magnum.358 Norma Magnum.375 Holland & Holland Magnum.375 Weatherby Magnum.378 Weatherby Magnum.400 Holland & Holland Magnum.416 Remington Magnum.416 Taylor.416 Weatherby Magnum.450 Marlin.458×2-inch American.458 Lott.458 Winchester Magnum.460 Weatherby Magnum
The American gun market produced several famous dangerous game cartridges around this time, such as the .458 Winchester Magnum, .378 Weatherby Magnum and .460 Weatherby Magnum and many of these were "wildcatted" (to modify an existing case and rifle to fire a different caliber bullet). The rest of the old Nitro express calibers had faded into ...