416 WSM For Sale

[NTO]

416 WSM
Rebore off a Winchester Shadow (don’t know who did rebore)
Has fiber optic open sights
Threaded muzzle break
I have shot the gun alittle works as it should never did much with it cleaning out the safe.
No brass or dies
$750 shipped

 

[Jamie D Van Roekel]

I assume that is a 300WSM expanded to 416?

 

[NTO]

Yes I used 325 wsm when I loaded for it but either will work.

 

[CoElkHunter]

Interesting wildcat. Wonder how one would go about getting dies for it?

 

[NTO]

They make does for them think it was Redding that does. When I loaded I used a combo of several dies and got a few test loads loaded.

 

[baxterb]

Wild to see this. I remember working at a gun shop right when the WSMs came out. One day a guy was in looking for .416 bullets. I asked him what he was reloading. He said, “I’m going to stuff a 416 into a WSM case and see what happens.”

neat to see someone actually got it working!

 

[NTO]

$700 shipped

 

[krish]

$700 shipped

What kind of balastics you got out of it.
krish

 

[NTO]

To be honest I never chrono it.

 

[NTO]

Still have this.

 

[NTO]

Still for sale $700 shipped owns it.

 

[geoff rath]

Started on a "build" but deferred it to another project; sold the components off, nowadays I'd just go 416 Ruger ...

 

[NTO]

Be the only one in camp with a 416 wsm.

 

[AZDAVE]

CH4D makes dies for this. https://www.chtoolanddie.com/calibers/416WSM

 

[SETH RINGER]

NEAT WILDCAT. WE HAVE A BLASER BARREL BORED TO .358 WSM

 

[93marlin]

Damn, this tempting...

 

[Luvthunt]

Too bad it was never chrony’d. Would be interesting

 

[geoff rath]

Too bad it was never chrony’d. Would be interesting

Buy the rifle, and chrono it yourself, be a fun project ...

 

[C.W. Richter]

As that case only holds the eq powder of an 06 case (or a 257 Wby), I'd think it's 20-40 gr light on powder charge. Probably ok for boar, black bear, buffalo, moose at modest range, but likely not suitable for DG. I couldn't even find ballistics on a big wildcatter's reloading database, but own both WSMs (60s gr) and 416s (80-100 gr). Powder space would be clobbered w/ a 400 gr projectile in that short case. Here you can see it next to the two shortest "functional" 416s that deliver 2,450 fps w/ 400 gr slugs (and 80ish gr of powder). I think it'd be a hit amongst black bear hunters in the Nez Perce.

 

[Wyatt Smith]

I wonder how close this is to the 416 B&M? I think it does around 2400 with 350s.