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.600 Overkill
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Rifle cartridge
January 2013
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December 2023
.600 Overkill United States Hunting, rifle Robert Garnick 2000Cary, D. (2020, August 29). 600 overkill? anyone.. AfricaHunting.com. https://www.africahunting.com/threads/600-overkill-anyone.57753/page-2 yes None Belted, straight 15.7 16.4 16.4 16.7 16.3 1.5 76 93 196.6 Magnum large rifle no 900 FMJ 2,400 ft/s 11,510 ft⋅lbf 470MBogo
The .600 Overkill is a hunting cartridge designed by American Hunting Rifles to fit the CZ-550 action.
Design
The .600 Overkill was designed by Robert Garnick of Las Vegas, Nevada in 2000. The case is a custom, with a belt, .683 in (17.35 mm), added for headspacing and the rim to fit that of the .505 Gibbs .640 in-(16.26 mm) size, bolt face.
This cartridge was intended to fire the largest bullet able to fit in the CZ-550,McCarthy Daniel Mini Compendium of Big Bore Cartridges http://www.470mbogo.com/BigBoreCompendium/#600Overkill 470Mbogo.com 4 September 2010 https://web.archive.org/web/20100901170754/http://www.470mbogo.com/BigBoreCompendium/#600Overkill 1 September 2010 dead dmy-all and was designed specifically for the purpose of killing an elephant. The CZ-550 can fit two cartridges, with slight alterations.
The .600 Overkill fires a 900 gr on bullet at more than 2400 ft/s m/s on,
References
Templar Stephen W Rexgun 2008 Morgan Templar 978-0-615-22413-8 106
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