.257 Weatherby Vanguard lasermark first outing

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Picked up a like new .257 Weatherby vanguard lasermark this winter and finally got it out. Using 7mm REM brass I was just trying to fireform but to my surprise all three loads shot incredibly. My best three shot group at 100 yards went .518" with 120 speer btsp and 7828. Also tried 115 partition with 7828 as well and had two touch and one pulled 1.25". I knew it was off when I squeezed the trigger. Same thing happened with some 87 grain hp's. Chrony was not working but 87 grain load showed 3665 with win760 when it did work. Really happy with my first attempt at making .257 brass from .7mm. Also tried my new vanguard s2 in .22-250 with some factory 45 Winchester white box loads and had the three shot group go .622". gotta love these vanguards.
 
My wood stocked Vanguard series one sporter put the first three .257 bullets into one hole. I was pissed until I realized that more than one bullet had gone through the same spot.....
 
Man, you are making me jealous.

I have a pre-order in for one of the 70th Anniversary 257's and can't wait for it to ship (at least hope some make it up this side of the border).
 
7828 is very good, I'm using it in the .257, .270 and .300 'Bees amoung other things. Another that I have great luck with is IMR4831 in the .257. It might give up a few feet per second but was an easy path to accuracy in 3 different .257s.

RL22 is considered a go to powder for the .257 but oddly my luck with it has been sketchy.
 
I got ridiculous accuracy out of RL and some 100 gr Sierra boat tails. Only drawback was they didn't like to hold together through a deer at that speed....
 
Dogleg said:
From Roy's point of view, that was the point. Get it in inside and blow it up, or mostly blow it up. That's the biggest wound channel that can be made with a bullet.
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Lol, it sure did that, at 40 yards it was absolutely devastating. I had to trim a pretty damn big hole on the exit side, vitals were Chunky Soup.... Haven't tried the Barnes or Partitions in my new loads on an animal yet, too many hunting rifles, not enough hunting time. If I get to use the Whelen on moose this year the Bee should be able to get out for deer season....
 
If it exited, it never completely blew up. That


I can tell you what the Barnes will do. It'll shoot very accurately, penetrate like crazy and kill slower than the bullet you quit using. The Partition will split the difference and blow the front half off and still have some assurance that the base will stay together.

I popped a whitetail with the 80 grain TTSX @ 39something fps. That once was interesting because the heavy blood trail went 8 feet and stopped abruptly. I looked around for second puzzled, then realized that the trail was actually 8 feet wide and I had tracked it sideways.;)
 
I have the vanguard lazerguard in .257 wby that I started to reload. It's favourite load so far is 117g Sierra Game King SBT over 69g of IMR 7828 with CCI mag primers. At 100m got a .29". Don't know the velocity but the book tell me around 3500/3600fps.

Nolser partitions shot like crap, I'm talking 3"-5" groups, I tried everything from seating depth, powder charge, to changing primer. I ran out of the 50 bullets I bought in the package and just gave up.

The factory Hornady 87g gave me a group of .8" at 100m but a bit light for deer.
 
The one S2 that showed up here had me duly impressed.
Stuck the Conquest on'er and took a few shooters up the hill.
First shot at 30 yards was a ringer.
Out to 110 yards and a few ker-pows and a few clicks definitely
raised me eye brows.
Great shoot'n rifle.
 
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