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I've used the .300 Weatherby as my go-to hunting rifle for over 25 years. Mine is a Remingon Classic, issued in their annual special calibre sometime back in the mid-seventies, I think.

I was actually going to get a .300 Win or a .338 in a Kleingeunther, but for whatever reason, I took the Classic. With the money I saved, I bought a 2.5x9 Swarovsky scope and a couple of boxes of 220 grain cartridges.

When I went to the range and fired a 5 shot group into one ragged hole, I was hooked. The load I use (and still took my deer with it this year, albeit overkill) is a 200 grain Nosler Partition, behind 83 grains of IMR7828. I get a chronographed 3200+ and a consistent group size of about .75 inches, going as tight as .285 if I'm really on, with this load. Yes, I'm not kidding. This is the single most accurate rifle I've ever owned that wasn't a .222 Reminton. I've killed whacks of deer, moose, and bear, plus other assorted game with this gun, (some with the 180 grain Sierra Gameking, which also shoots very well in this tube) and anything that ever hit the dirt never got up again. Never lost anything, and never pulled the trigger on this gun more than once, but I did have one muley buck that didn't know he was dead go about 200 yards before he piled up, after a clean lung shot. I used the 200 grainer on him - too much bullet and too small an exit hole. I wasn't hunting deer at that time, and he stepped into the open begging to be shot.

If you notice, Daryl S.'s post above is talking about me and my rifle. I think that lets you know what I think of the .300 Weatherby, eh?

And for whatever reason, Daryl shoots all of my guns better than I do. Could it be talent? :-)

Edited by moltogordo (24/01/10 05:18 PM)

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