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300S&W
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martin3175
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that's some amazing stuff
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RONK
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I wish the average deer hunter could shoot groups that size at one HUNDRED yards! |
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rifle looney
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What!
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What?
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Edited by rifle looney - May/17/2009 at 19:29 |
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Incredible!
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thats real impressive!
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Edited by rifle looney - May/17/2009 at 19:27 |
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Nice!! At that range I would think there's so many variables involved and to be able to do 10 shots in a row, 3" group, at 1000 yards, is truly amazing!! Edited by mike650 - May/17/2009 at 19:17 |
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sakomato
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That 300 Weatherby is about as far from a factory gun as a Indianapolis 500 racecar is from a 4 door sedan you buy off a dealership lot.
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300S&W
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But the fact that the cartidge was a std .300 Weatherby is what I'm liken. For years the Weatherby cartidges have been maligned as to their accuracy and now that's been laid to rest.
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Wish I could do that! But I think it is just fun shooting at those ranges.
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That's not possible.......Weatherby's have belted cartriges and freebore. They're hard to load for and not very accurate.......yada yada yada.
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sakomato
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The article doesn't say if he had the rifle chambered with a short throat and chambered so that there was not much datum gap on the new cases. Since it mentions that he had started with a jump of .018" and changed to .028", that says he had it chambered with a short throat. Most Weatherby's have a jump close to .275" in order to fit the magazine and even if you try to load them out close to the lands for single shot function there is very little bullet left in the neck, not nearly enough.
Also the .339" throat is pretty generous but I'll bet he had already measured the Norma brass so that he had a tight clearance.
If you look at the case drawings
you can see that he had the shoulder moved forward, the radius shoulder changed to a flat one and the neck slightly lengthened. More like a 300 Weatherby Magnum Ackley Improved.
I'm not bashing the 300 Wtby, just saying not a typical one and it is slightly misleading to call it one.
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John B or one of the other writers had a Weatherby built on a different action and barrel with a short throat and said it did not help or change much as to performance?
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300S&W
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I read the same somewhere rl. I'm questioning why the pic/specs of the Weatherby cartridge that is supposedly from Norma doesn't show a radius shoulder when at Midway both Norma casings and Weatherby ammo show the radius shoulder.
Edited by 300S&W - May/18/2009 at 09:09 |
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That is amazing. Trigger, where is you 5" at 1k yard target? What is the big hold up?
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my 1K range is quite a ways from my house. I've just got my new load for my rifle out to 700, and figuring out where it will hit at ranges of 300 to 700. I hope to get out to the long range sometime this summer. I hope to get a target out at 700 and see how the groups look. Just been busting milk jugs so far.
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Hey Sakomoto,
I'm checking out some sources that say the pic of the casing in this thread:
which is taken from Norma's web:
is not representitive of the actual product and in fact the Norma brass used at the match did have the radius at the shoulder. I ran into a similar situation regarding scope reticles where the pic didn't match the product. Who would've thought!
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