Anyone have luck with Accumark?

[Smoak352]

Has anyone had any luck with Weatherby Accumark? I owned a stock Accumark chambered in 300wby with the exception of a Timney trigger. It was accompanied by a Z5 5x25 scope. Tried factory ammo and handholds and could not get it to shoot better than 3" group at 100 yards. Unacceptable for an "accumark".

I tried calling weatherby to inquire about addressing the issue. I was transferred to an answering machine and left 3 separate messages with no response. Unfortunately this was the first and last weatherby I will ever buy. It is a gorgeous rifle, but what good is a pretty rifle that does not shoot?

Just sold it and ordered a cooper. Hopefully I will have better luck.

 

[Lefty7mmstw]

I had the exact same problem with a buddies accumark 300roy.... The solution for his rifle was to go with heavy bullets and shoot 220-225 grain hpbt bullets and 7828. Now he's got enough bullet for anything and sub moa accuracy...

 

[TonyQ]

I have a factor accumark and I am shooting berger 215 berger hybrids at 2900fps. Load is norma brass 81grains of H1000 215 primers oal of 3.655. I just put down my first elk at 1168yards three days ago. The gun shoots 3/4 groups at 200yards I am real happy with it. I am going to put in a full report of the hunt in the next few days in the ELR.

 

[Jim in Cali]

OP, you gave up too soon, all it needed was some attention to details.

 

[Deleted member 46119]

OP, you gave up too soon, all it needed was some attention to details.

Yup

 

[HARPERC]

Some folks like a challenge, others don't. Some Weatherby's shoot, some don't. At the price and availability of components nothing wrong with cutting your losses who evers name is on it.

 

[idaho elk hunter]

Partitions and Barnes are made for the Weatherby. All others are a shot in the dark. Thin jacketed bullets with soft cores ( Berger) typically shoot the 3 in @ 100yds. FREEBORE! is the game

 

[MudRunner2005]

I've had my accumark .257 Wby since new (2008), and it has always been a minute of deer gun. I've put maybe 200 rounds down the barrel since new. Took it to my smith earlier this year, and he said the bore was junk and had ATLEAST 5 tight spots in the bore that were there from the factory.

Told me that I should send it back to Wby and make them replace the barrel for free.

 

[Dosh]

Smoak, have 4 Weatherby's .257, 270, 300 and 30/378 all are 1/2 MOA @ 200 or better. Some did take some work to find accuracy, all are bedded and new or reworked triggers. I use Bergers in all. My friend's 300 Accumark had the same accuracy as yours until bedded and new trigger, now shoots great. I'm not happy with having to touch the trigger on an expensive rifle, but I really like Wby and the Wby calibers. I'll bet that new custom will please you right out of the box. Good luck

 

[MudRunner2005]

I've had my accumark .257 Wby since new (2008), and it has always been a minute of deer gun. I've put maybe 200 rounds down the barrel since new. Took it to my smith earlier this year, and he said the bore was junk and had ATLEAST 5 tight spots in the bore that were there from the factory.

Told me that I should send it back to Wby and make them replace the barrel for free.

Forgot to finish my post from earlier...Got distracted at work...

As for me, I won't ever be buying another Weatherby product again. $2,200 MSRP rifle shouldn't leave the factory with a junk barrel. That's ****-poor quality control.

Anyone wanna buy it? It'll still shoot 1 MOA or less, but you gotta slam the cleaning rod with your palm to get a jag and patch more than 1/2-way down it... It's a bastage to clean the barrel, but still shoots 3/4"-1" MOA average with handloads.

Make someone a hell of a deal, or will trade for a Sendero SF in whatever caliber you got...

 

[Smoak352]

Thanks for the reply guys. I wanted to make it work with the Accumark, I just love the look and feel or that rifle, but after multiple calls to weatherby I began to get discouraged.

I called Cooper and talked to them on the phone for 30 min, with me just asking questions. They went above and beyond customer service.

Why waste $100s of dollars on different bullet/powder combinations and hours at the range and in the garage making ammo for a >$2,000 rifle? I can send a 700 action to have a custom gun made for that price and it will shoot anything?

To those of you that have one that shoots, that is great because it us a sexy rifle. I wish I had better luck.

Thanks for the opinions.

 

[Lefty7mmstw]

Thanks for the reply guys. I wanted to make it work with the Accumark, I just love the look and feel or that rifle, but after multiple calls to weatherby I began to get discouraged.

I called Cooper and talked to them on the phone for 30 min, with me just asking questions. They went above and beyond customer service.

Why waste $100s of dollars on different bullet/powder combinations and hours at the range and in the garage making ammo for a >$2,000 rifle? I can send a 700 action to have a custom gun made for that price and it will shoot anything?

To those of you that have one that shoots, that is great because it us a sexy rifle. I wish I had better luck.

Thanks for the opinions.

Everyone gets a bum pipe now and again. I had a remmy700 lh lss in 7rum for a spell that had such a fat chamber in it that it was actually splitting sizing dies... Rem wouldn't do anything as it shot factories fine and I gave it back to my lgs...

 

[MudRunner2005]

I checked today....Wby offers a 1.5 MOA guarantee at 100 yards. Unfortunately my rifle still shoots well within that range, so I'll probably just end up having to spend $500+ rebarreling my $2,100 rifle that has less than 250 rounds down it.

Not sure if they'll swap the barrel based on the bore being tight alone, but I guess I'll call them this week and see.

 

[the444shooter]

What rounds have you been trying?