Weatherby accuracy

Hehe it sounds like fun. I took the 7mm accumark out today. Fine fine gun
Bronco Boy said:
My Mark V is more accurate than my Remingtons. About an inch at 100 with me shooting and I am by no means the worlds best bench rest shooter.

I love the look and feel of my mark V soooooooo much. Just holding her brings me pleasure.......shooting her brings me pleasure and a sore shoulder.
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What caliber.... do you mean 4 or 5 shots and a hot barrel? What ammo are you using?

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Of course... that is normal.... the barrel on the 257 gets hot after about 3 shots and you should let it cool for 15 minutes... shooting a hot barrel will burn it out much faster.... hot barrels also change the Point of impact... there is nothing wrong with the rifle.... if your first 3 shots are grouping, the rifle is fine.

The 257 is pushing a lot of powder through a small caliber..... it will heat of very quick... its not a range rifle, its a hunting caliber... a caliber like the 308 or 223 is much better suited to the range and will take a lot longer to heat up....
 
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After spending over 7 months and quite a few bucks trying to get a 257 Vanguard to shoot I gave up and sold it.
New in the spring, it came with a test target showing a 0.95" group.
At first no handloads would go under 2" so we pulled the stock because it seemed to be moving slightly in the wood.
After bedding and a new Timney trigger several handloads showed a best of about 1.80" so everything was checked mounts were checked , a different scope was tried to no avail.
A call to Weatherby's tech dept. advised that it had to be my handloads and I was told exactly which factory loads were used to make the test target.
Out to the range and lo and behold the factory ammo wouldn't group as well as my handloads.....these same loads fired in my brother's 257 Weatherby Mauser with a Bevan barrel group well under 3/4".
The rifle was comfortable to shoot and worked well although somewhat heavy but despite everything I tried it wouldn't group well.
I even had the barrel checked with a borescope and couldn't find anything out of the ordinary.
 
Mine was around 1" with my buddy shooting but after 5 shots it goes all wacky
Kevan said:
After spending over 7 months and quite a few bucks trying to get a 257 Vanguard to shoot I gave up and sold it.
New in the spring, it came with a test target showing a 0.95" group.
At first no handloads would go under 2" so we pulled the stock because it seemed to be moving slightly in the wood.
After bedding and a new Timney trigger several handloads showed a best of about 1.80" so everything was checked mounts were checked , a different scope was tried to no avail.
A call to Weatherby's tech dept. advised that it had to be my handloads and I was told exactly which factory loads were used to make the test target.
Out to the range and lo and behold the factory ammo wouldn't group as well as my handloads.....these same loads fired in my brother's 257 Weatherby Mauser with a Bevan barrel group well under 3/4".
The rifle was comfortable to shoot and worked well although somewhat heavy but despite everything I tried it wouldn't group well.
I even had the barrel checked with a borescope and couldn't find anything out of the ordinary.
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If you barrel is to hot to keep your hand on it, then its too hot to shoot. Shooting through a hot barrel will burn it out a lot quicker.
 
mylesrom said:
If you barrel is to hot to keep your hand on it, then its too hot to shoot. Shooting through a hot barrel will burn it out a lot quicker.
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I'm well aware of that and at no time did the barrel get any more than warm.
The rifle had ample time to cool down because every time I took it to the range I also had 7 or 8 other rifles to play with and it only fired groups of three before being racked.
 
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