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30" 257 Weatherby - What can I expect.
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<blockquote data-quote="RT2506" data-source="post: 1968424" data-attributes="member: 10178"><p>In my experience .257 caliber anything is a super deer size and under game killer. As you have said the 110 Accubond has been a great bullet for the fast movers. It has been a long time ago before the bonded/mono bullets arrived, my hunting buddy got a 257 Weatherby. Tried the 117 Sierra Game King like he had been shooting in his 25-06 and used H870 which was about the slowest powder at that time. We did not have a chrno in those days so did not know the velocity but it was FASTER than any 25-06 load. This rifle was very accurate and the first deer he shot was right at 100 yards. It went down as if the ground had been jerked out from under it but it was a mess. Bullet completely vaporized on impact and fragged the heart I guess but also hydrostatic damage probably did more damage. He decided that he would switch bullets after that. He went with the 115 Nos. Partition which was not as accurate but it sure held together better. Not sure what velocity a 30" barrel will do but it should get you at least 200 fps over a 26". I have a 27 3/4" barrel on a 264 Win mag and it gets 3350 fps with 130 Accubond using Retumbo and that bullet holds up great even at 25 yards on deer. I can just vision what that 75 Vmax does. I used some 87 gr Sierra in my 25-06 at around 3400 fps on ground hogs and it looked like shooting water balloons filled with red paint.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="RT2506, post: 1968424, member: 10178"] In my experience .257 caliber anything is a super deer size and under game killer. As you have said the 110 Accubond has been a great bullet for the fast movers. It has been a long time ago before the bonded/mono bullets arrived, my hunting buddy got a 257 Weatherby. Tried the 117 Sierra Game King like he had been shooting in his 25-06 and used H870 which was about the slowest powder at that time. We did not have a chrno in those days so did not know the velocity but it was FASTER than any 25-06 load. This rifle was very accurate and the first deer he shot was right at 100 yards. It went down as if the ground had been jerked out from under it but it was a mess. Bullet completely vaporized on impact and fragged the heart I guess but also hydrostatic damage probably did more damage. He decided that he would switch bullets after that. He went with the 115 Nos. Partition which was not as accurate but it sure held together better. Not sure what velocity a 30" barrel will do but it should get you at least 200 fps over a 26". I have a 27 3/4" barrel on a 264 Win mag and it gets 3350 fps with 130 Accubond using Retumbo and that bullet holds up great even at 25 yards on deer. I can just vision what that 75 Vmax does. I used some 87 gr Sierra in my 25-06 at around 3400 fps on ground hogs and it looked like shooting water balloons filled with red paint. [/QUOTE]
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