6.5-300 Weatherby

[Clay Target Guy]

Saw this in a gun magazine the other day. Anybody got one or know anything about it?

Thanks
John

 

[Rich Coyle]

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[Deleted member 46119]

I don't have one. However I have 8 or 9 or 11 Weatherbys and looked it up from a historical perspective long before it was announced. It's been around a long time.

If you buy one in a Weatherby Mark V, now, you should get sub-MOA guarantee.

Virtually identical to a 26-Nosler for the belted magnum and Weatherby lovers.

I don't have a 26-Nosler either, just 277/26-Nosler, 28-Nosler (well I sold it), 308/26-Nosler and 338/26-Nosler. Same as I have a 257 Weatherby, 277 Weatherby, 7mm Weatherby, 300 Weatherby and a 338-378 on the way.

So basically it boils down to my educated guess.

If I were going to buy a big magnum 6.5 I would have one heck of a time choosing between a 26-Nosler and a 6.5-300 Weatherby except.... I like Weatherby.

 

[Don A Parsons]

If I recall the 6.5-300 weatherby was designed years ago, but it never sparked interest.

Looks like its getting a second chance, there are lots of flavours of calibers too choose from these days, so it will be a long road to get it off the ground.

Pretty hard too beet the plain old 243, 308, 270, 30-06, 7 and 300 mag's here in Canada.

Well established cartrages seem to sell.

IMO that is.

Don

 

[cacsrx1]

Mine is working good. Running 143g eld-x's at 3410fps. Under .5 moa out of a factory Accumark.