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At the time I owned my .340WBY,1977-1981, the Nosler partition was the most reliable bullet availble. I used the 250 gr loaded to 2850fps and never felt the need for anything better. I still favor Nosler partitions for all North American big game from .270Win to .375 H&H but they are not really needed for the .300 Savage and the slower velocities of the 9.3x57 and 9.3x62.
If I were to invest in a classic custom rifle I would want a classic chambering. If I bought a rifle specifically for hunting in BC or Alaska I would consider the .33Nosler,the RUM or the Lapua. A friend of mine has a .338/.378 WBY accumark with Nightforce scope. It has a 28" barrel including muzzle brake. The ammo, which he reloads, costs new,over $200 bucks a box and is a special order. The rifle is absolutely no fun to shoot. More brutal than a .416 Rigby CZ 550 or a Browning High-Power .458 Win. He cut his brow on three occasions, one ruining an expensive hunt and requiring medical attention. The local range will not allow him to use it on weekends or times when the place is crowded.His hunting partners last one hunt but he has bragging rights when it comes to ballistics.

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That Weatherby sounds like a beast I want no part of. Who would want to carry something like that around the mtns to hunt? Each to their own, IMHO, Weatherby's time has come and gone from the glamour days of the '60's and 70's. The expense they charge vs what you can get in other brands makes it hard to justify spending the money on a Weatherby. Personally I have never had very good luck or been a great fan of their rifles..went through more than a half dozen of them in the '90's ...none of which shot to what I wanted..so I built one in .257 Weatherby caliber..which does shoot very well and accounted for my largest mule deer to date ..

While at the range yesterday morning I was shooting a friends custom lightweight in 300RUM..had a custom brake on it..was amazingly easy to shoot..and incredibly accurate..factory ammo..3 shots touching at 100 yrds...but yes, would not want to shoot it without hearing protection, which takes some away for me as I do NOT wear hearing protection while hunting..probably should, but seems couterproductive to what I am doing at the time..

There must be a heck of a tax up there for the price to be $200 per box?? Its no where near that down here the last I looked..but like your friend, I reload all of mine as well...I have the .257 Weatherby and a .240 Weatherby for my wife..but she keeps grabbing either the Kimber in .308 or the Tikka in 22-250 vs the Weatherby..which has probably not had 20 rounds fired through it at this point.

Ripp

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Edited by Ripp (02/11/16 10:54 PM)

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