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    Posted: May/17/2009 at 07:23
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that's some amazing stuff
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 I wish the average deer hunter could shoot groups that size at one HUNDRED yards!

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Incredible!
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thats real impressive!
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Originally posted by 300S&W 300S&W wrote:

  
   Have ya heard?



Nice!!  Excellent  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!!




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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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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote 300S&W Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May/17/2009 at 20:05
    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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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote helo18 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May/17/2009 at 20:41
Wish I could do that!  But I think it is just fun shooting at those ranges.
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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote trigger29 Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May/17/2009 at 22:22
That's not possible.......Weatherby's have belted cartriges and freebore. They're hard to load for and not very accurate.......yada yada yada.Cool

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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.
 
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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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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote rifle looney Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: May/17/2009 at 23:21
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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  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.

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That is amazing.  Trigger, where is you 5" at 1k yard target?  What is the big hold up? Big Smile
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Originally posted by SD Dog SD Dog wrote:

That is amazing.  Trigger, where is you 5" at 1k yard target?  What is the big hold up? Big Smile
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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