View Poll Results: Which weatherby cartridge?
.257 Wby
15
51.72%
.300 Wby
7
24.14%
other
7
24.14%
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Weatherby: If you had to?
07-31-2011, 08:26 PM
#12
Typical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2004
Location: Indiana county, Pa
Posts: 681
weatherby rifles
if i had my choice of the weatherby calibers it would be the 300 Wby mag. the only thing it would not be a weatherby rifle. i would take a remington 700 in 300 win mag and have it rechambered for the 300 wby mag. im not real fond of wby rifles.
07-31-2011, 08:44 PM
#13
Typical Buck
Join Date: Jul 2011
Location: West TN
Posts: 847
I'm an "extreme sentimentalist" so you won't hear me badmouthing Weatherby, his ideas, his guns or yes... even the hooplah and salesmanship he "created" on his way to becoming a household name in the gun world. 
IMHO the 300Wby is THE ORIGINAL "super 30".
Sure you can do anything a 300Wby will do with a 300Win, and with a good Barnes X-bullet I can kill most anything with the 25/06 that the 257Wby does. BUT I didn't say it would be as much fun!
(I had a 25/06 Wby Vanguard many years ago and LOVED it until someone borrowed it from my truck without asking! 
)
I have a 300Wby MKV Dlx and LOVE it. Has some GORGEOUS wood on it. Was my late step-fathers elk rifle and was only used maybe 2-3 times in CO. He never really liked it because he said it kicked so hard but back then that was "the big bad 30cal" to be had over the counter. IMHO the Mark V Deluxe is the Marilyn Monroe of rifles, especially mine, 1983 vintage with a 26" Number 1 contour (never previously heard of 30cals in #1 contour but that's what authentication paperwork from Wby says!) That gorgeous, dark grained, rich rosewood, bright spacers and "chrome blued" pencil thin barrel topped with a shiny black Leupold just SCREAMS twisted steel and sex appeal. (As much as I love the MK V ultra-lightweights I consider any Wby that has a synthetic stock akin to a beautiful, nude woman with no make-up, flat shoes and a black trench coat! 
)
All that diatribe being stated, I must go on record as admitting that my next Wby will be a custom shop Wby Mk V Euromark in 257Wby. The older I get the more I appreciate beautiful wood and fine metal work and abhor stainless and plastic.
Now back to the original question, 257 vs 300??? Why, I dare say BOTH of course!!!
RA
IMHO the 300Wby is THE ORIGINAL "super 30". Sure you can do anything a 300Wby will do with a 300Win, and with a good Barnes X-bullet I can kill most anything with the 25/06 that the 257Wby does. BUT I didn't say it would be as much fun!
(I had a 25/06 Wby Vanguard many years ago and LOVED it until someone borrowed it from my truck without asking! )I have a 300Wby MKV Dlx and LOVE it. Has some GORGEOUS wood on it. Was my late step-fathers elk rifle and was only used maybe 2-3 times in CO. He never really liked it because he said it kicked so hard but back then that was "the big bad 30cal" to be had over the counter. IMHO the Mark V Deluxe is the Marilyn Monroe of rifles, especially mine, 1983 vintage with a 26" Number 1 contour (never previously heard of 30cals in #1 contour but that's what authentication paperwork from Wby says!) That gorgeous, dark grained, rich rosewood, bright spacers and "chrome blued" pencil thin barrel topped with a shiny black Leupold just SCREAMS twisted steel and sex appeal.
(As much as I love the MK V ultra-lightweights I consider any Wby that has a synthetic stock akin to a beautiful, nude woman with no make-up, flat shoes and a black trench coat! )All that diatribe being stated, I must go on record as admitting that my next Wby will be a custom shop Wby Mk V Euromark in 257Wby. The older I get the more I appreciate beautiful wood and fine metal work and abhor stainless and plastic.
Now back to the original question, 257 vs 300??? Why, I dare say BOTH of course!!!
RA
