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Calvin I grew up on long Weatherby belted magnums and they r near and dear to me still. Especially that 257 mag. But now it sits in the safe mostly and I look at it once in a while with fond memories. I say the weight savings claims made on short mag rifles vs long is that usually they are...

Always the short vs long debate. Not really a debate as they are different animals. Shortmags can be housed in lighter shorter handier rifles and give better overall ballistics than long mags. They lose less velocity in shorter barrels than long mags.Their design by nature lends itself to...

Accubonds and more recently Hornady CX has worked well for me. On the list of what I wouldnt use are Nosler Partitions. They get a lot of praise, but Ive had failures on lightskinned game such as Antelope. For Western game as you were asking about, I think the Accubond would be the way to go.