Weatherby 240 Mag

How do you like yours RJ? Many a time I have thought about the little .240, but have always talked myself out of it.
 
I don't have one in a Vanguard but do have a 6-lug MkV chambered in that cartridge. For the past 5yrs or so it has been my go to deer gun. If there was ever a cartridge that performs beyond its size, this is it! I am shooting 95gr BT's at a moderate 3275fps. The gun is .5moa with this load and absolutely hammers WT bucks!
 
1899 said:
How do you like yours RJ? Many a time I have thought about the little .240, but have always talked myself out of it.
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I just got it in the door and now i have mounted up a 3.5-10 Leupold CDS VX-3 scope in Talleys on it- I am loading shells now ! It keeps being winter here in the BOO - Snowed another 2" today ! RJ
 
I sold mine. Had it before I started loading my own. Nice round but impossible to find ammo locally so I sold it bought a 25/06. Now I reload. And prefer the 257
 
I just built a 257wby but I have brand new 30-06 action laying around with a 6mm barrel on order. Still havent decided on chambering but I'm
leaning towards 240wby over the 6mm-06. Not as fast but I think it has a cool factor to it.
 
My choice in that category of 6mms is far and away the 6mm-284, it exceeds the 240 Wby and functions through a short action like a dream. I won't even tell you the velocities I get with a 26" tube but they are crazy. It is a heavy hitter Swift. Never played with the 240 Bee RJ, the brass is just too hard to get and expensive and is very difficult to make from other brass around. Yes I know there are dies to form the belt and make brass from '06 but I just never wanted one that bad, with the discovery of the 6-284 many years ago and 500 or so 284 cases in inventory, I'm not likely to go that direction any time soon either.
It is a cute little unique belted case though, and I can see the attraction, if only brass was more plentiful or easier to make..................
 
I'm putting one together right now. I've always thought it was a sweet cartridge. I do reload and just bought some cheap factory ammunition since its only like 25 bucks more a box than any brass i could find. That cheap ammo only cost me $170 gor two boxes....lol. Can't wait to get it together and let her rip.
 
Here's a load that has produced several 3/4 inch 3 shot 200 yd groups Norma case, H4831 55grs. Nosler 85 gr Solid Base, lit with a Fed 210 match primer.

As for all those that ##### and moan about the price of brass. If you can't afford the gas, don't buy the ride. Lol.
 
The 240 Weatherby is a lovely little cartridge that I wished for many years ago. It was 2010 that it became part of the family and fixture in the safe and field. There was very little effort to develop a load for this cartridge (53.0 gr. IMR 4831), maybe unlike others, I decided to use the 85 grain Nosler Partition. It is a very light bullet, however well constructed to hold together with velocities knocking on the door of 3,500 fps, and to hammer and penetrate heavy shoulders of big bodied deer. Well this little cartridge did not prove itself wrong, sub 1/2 moa groups and knocks antelope and big bucks dead where they stand.
It is very flat shooting and accurate for prairie hunting. The enclosed antelope was taken at 310 paces where the bullet entered the base of the neck, travelled the length of it's body, and exited it back in front of the hind quarters..................now that's performance, cartridge and bullet. This is my 5th antelope buck and I wish I had this little cartridge since my first hunt.

 
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