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Would appreciate thoughts on "having it all" to 600 yards.
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<blockquote data-quote="Hired Gun" data-source="post: 73079" data-attributes="member: 1290"><p><strong>Re: Would appreciate thoughts on \"having it all\" to 600 yards.</strong></p><p></p><p>Doesn't anyone hand load anymore? If you do there is no reason one gun can't do it all out to 600+ yards and have long barrel life. For solid elk killing performance at 600+ yards I would be looking at the 300 or 340 Weatherby Magnums in a Weatherby Accumark either with or without the Accubrake. Recoil while hunting is rarely a problem. The Weatherby triggers are superb. I have all mine set below 1 pound. You can't believe how mild and accurate a 300 Wby is if you load it down to 2600 feet per second or so. Same thing in the 340. Put 185's in it and run them at 2600 fps and it's a pussycat that will never hurt a barrel. Sure the 308 is plesant to shoot but it is a little weak cartridge that will always be just that. A big magnum can do it all. All you need is to load for the situation. A 300 Weatherby with 110 grain Hornady's at a reasonable speed makes a super varminter too. That's why mine has a 6-18 power scope on it. It shoots .4's with 180 grain Partitions at 3200. Mine is slow because it only has a 23" barrel.</p><p></p><p>It is funny how we found this out. We were working up loads for a 300 Wby once and stumbled into a load that shot in the .2's with almost no kick. We were spellbound by it. I was so fun to shoot. Later we finally chronographed it. 2600fps was the reading. A quick trip back to the bench revealed that the scale was 10 grains low.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hired Gun, post: 73079, member: 1290"] [b]Re: Would appreciate thoughts on \"having it all\" to 600 yards.[/b] Doesn't anyone hand load anymore? If you do there is no reason one gun can't do it all out to 600+ yards and have long barrel life. For solid elk killing performance at 600+ yards I would be looking at the 300 or 340 Weatherby Magnums in a Weatherby Accumark either with or without the Accubrake. Recoil while hunting is rarely a problem. The Weatherby triggers are superb. I have all mine set below 1 pound. You can't believe how mild and accurate a 300 Wby is if you load it down to 2600 feet per second or so. Same thing in the 340. Put 185's in it and run them at 2600 fps and it's a pussycat that will never hurt a barrel. Sure the 308 is plesant to shoot but it is a little weak cartridge that will always be just that. A big magnum can do it all. All you need is to load for the situation. A 300 Weatherby with 110 grain Hornady's at a reasonable speed makes a super varminter too. That's why mine has a 6-18 power scope on it. It shoots .4's with 180 grain Partitions at 3200. Mine is slow because it only has a 23" barrel. It is funny how we found this out. We were working up loads for a 300 Wby once and stumbled into a load that shot in the .2's with almost no kick. We were spellbound by it. I was so fun to shoot. Later we finally chronographed it. 2600fps was the reading. A quick trip back to the bench revealed that the scale was 10 grains low. [/QUOTE]
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