What .257 bullet are you shooting?

[Priley]

90 gr absolute hammer.
4135fps h4350.
It's shoots pretty flat.
.257 Weatherby 28" barrel

Just curious.. How many shot's before your barrel is shot out??

 

[snox801]

Just curious.. How many shot's before your barrel is shot out??

Hard to say.

 

[Priley]

Hard to say.

They say the 6.5x300 Weatherby is only getting 400 rounds before needing re-barreled and it's way slower then that. I was looking at that round until I read that.

 

[snox801]

Well maybe. I bet it has more to do with how hot you get it. Plus give me a reason to go 1/7 twist

 

[crm3006]

I just bought several boxes of the 115 Bal. Silvertip at a really good price. I am going to work up a load for my Sendero 25-06AI.
I have thought this bullet to be a little "soft" yet almost everyone who actually use it get great results so I am going to give them a try. I am expecting 3300+ fps.

115 gr. Ballistic Silvertip, or Combined Technology, as they used to be known, and 115 gr. Nosler Ballistic Tips are almost exactly the same bullet. They shoot to the same POI out of my .25-06, and a deer can't tell the difference. Kills like Thor's hammer.

 

[bsnyder]

They say the 6.5x300 Weatherby is only getting 400 rounds before needing re-barreled and it's way slower then that. I was looking at that round until I read that.

I'm north of 400 rounds on mine it's still shooting well. My 257 also runs the 90 grain hammer at 4050. I'm in the same boat once it's shoot out I'll go 1-7 twist for the heavier hammers and the 133 Berger's.

 

[Beamonk]

75 gr ttsx in 25-06.

They make a 75g in TTSX? I've only seen the 80"s

 

[cavin_and]

They make a 75g in TTSX? I've only seen the 80"s

 

[cavin_and]

You are correct. 80 gr.

 

[snox801]

Well go to stretch out my .257 today with the 90gr hammers.
3150fps
Zero at 300 I'm 1.2" high at 100 and only 4.8" low at 400.
Holds a tight enough group for me.
Hole in target was for previous day. Has black line through it. Then cold bore at 400 on steel. Should work well.

 

[Rhino Hunter]

110 Accubond.

 

[Beamonk]

Why is it that it seems .257 and 7mm bullets are the hardest to find these days? More allocation to 6.5 and .308, 224? One would think that after 2 years of shortages that supplies would be coming back more than they are currently. Not to mention powder and primers...

 

[Rhino Hunter]

Why is it that it seems .257 and 7mm bullets are the hardest to find these days? More allocation to 6.5 and .308, 224? One would think that after 2 years of shortages that supplies would be coming back more than they are currently. Not to mention powder and primers...

6.5 is the new sweetheart, and .308 is the ever popular so they run more of these extremely high sales volume bullets. Not sure about the .224 though.

 

[snox801]

I've never had problems with .25 bullets I call hammer and they ship same week. Lol
Side note if you in need I may have a decent supply of .25 115gr nosler and Berger