257 Weatherby?
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I don't own one, nor never have, but I've always thought that a 257 Weatherby would be one of the ultimate long range deer / sheep rifles. Maybe someday I will pick one up, after all, you only live once. It might be a little too much for varmint hunting, depending on what kind of varmint hunting you do.
You don't like the 7mm wby mag?
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- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
The 7mm Weatherby is just an expensive 7mm Remington. The .257 Weatherby is on my someday list, but for folks who were attracted to "tomorrow's rifles today" today has become yesterday, and some Weatherby cartridges have fallen from glory. Not so the .257 or for that matter the 30/378, .378, 416, or .460.
.300 still has a huge following as well.......not sure why but there are many people that have taken their NA 29 with a .300 Weatherby. No better or worse than the other .300s I guess but it does have a wealthy cult following. I always liked the idea of that .30/378 for a long-range gun! Did a fair bit of shooting with them when they first came out.
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Iown a 257 Weatherby Accumark. Ijust bought it this summer. It took me a while to find a load for it.I can't believe how flat it shoots.I sight in 3 inches high at 100 and its 1.3 inches high at 309 yards. I have duplicated this result several times. The only time my 300 win comes out is for moose.
Iown a 257 Weatherby Accumark. Ijust bought it this summer. It took me a while to find a load for it.I can't believe how flat it shoots.I sight in 3 inches high at 100 and its 1.3 inches high at 309 yards. I have duplicated this result several times. The only time my 300 win comes out is for moose.
257 weatherby
I have shot 4 elk and a couple moose with with the 100 grain barns x.I use a100 grain nosler bullistic tip for deer.I'm amazed at how it drop game.I have yet to recover a barns x bullet.It shoots flat with little recoil.I can see why it was Roy Weatherby's favourit cartridges.
I have shot 4 elk and a couple moose with with the 100 grain barns x.I use a100 grain nosler bullistic tip for deer.I'm amazed at how it drop game.I have yet to recover a barns x bullet.It shoots flat with little recoil.I can see why it was Roy Weatherby's favourit cartridges.
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- Somewhere on the Hudson Bay Coast
The .300 is certainly a useful cartridge as it the .340, but the big volume .300's are the darlings of the go fast crowd, and the .338 Lapua pretty much has the fame if not the lead for the top .338 spot. A doctor friend used a .30/378, a MK V Accumark and he proved to be a wonderful long range shot while he was here. That rifle did train me to hate muzzle brakes.
I can't tell you how much I was wishing for a .257 Wby for about an hour this Morning.
I have a NIB 700 lss in 257WBY for sale pm me.
Gord.
.257 Weatherby
I own a .257 Weatherby Accumark , I have shot a few deer with it and an Elk , have not yet used it on Moose , Maybee next year ? it's a flat shooter and knocked down the elk with one shot out at 200 yards , i use the 120Gr nozzler partitions
I own a .257 Weatherby Accumark , I have shot a few deer with it and an Elk , have not yet used it on Moose , Maybee next year ? it's a flat shooter and knocked down the elk with one shot out at 200 yards , i use the 120Gr nozzler partitions
I have an ulta light and use the Hornady 120 hollow points 3330 fps, good bullet verry accurate. I shot a whitetail through the neck at about 325 yards and killed the deer standing on the other side of it as well. My loads give me alot of 1.5" groups at 300 meters, fast flat and deadly with little recoil.
Would be fine for long distance shooting at one or two coyotes. They are quite overbore, so heat generation is big. Most of the rifles chambered in .257Roy have fairly slim barrels. Ammo is expensive.
What about 6mm Remington or something like that? Can do deer, and won't heat up as much for when the dog action is hot. Waaaaaaaayyy cheaper to shoot or reload for.
