.257 Weatherby Magnum

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223shooter

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hey anyone shoot one of these?? i just started reading about them and sound to me like they would make a great deer load? i saw a weatherby Vanguard in this cal at my dearler a couple days ago do these rifles shoot good? it says they are proven 11/2 inch at 100....just thinking because my father would like to buy my little brother his own deer rifle
 
wow i see why alot of people don't use them $55 for shells man i don't know i might have to start handloading /ubbthreads/images/graemlins/wink.gif is it worth the extra money or should we just look into a standard caliber?
 
257 weatherby is an awesome gun. Heads above the 257 roberts and abit more than a 25-06. How old is your brother? Just asking for recoil purposes.
 
he is 13, he is about 5'5 and last year he used my fathers back up gun "25-06" yet he says he would like his "own deer rifle" he has shot lots of bigger guns and it dosn't seem to bother him

why dose the 257 wby have a lot of recoil?? i can get the gun for $375 yet i may tell him $400 and a box of shells if we end up buying it also what bullet would you recumend for deer under 120 pounds at distance under 200 yards?
 
It will have more recoil than the 25-06. Especially if it has one of those light tupperwear stocks. 110-115 gr bullet will probabky work well. Not varmint type bullets. for some one that young, i would look at the 7mm-08. But if he can handle it, then go for it.
 
Using bullets of equal sectional density the .257 Weatherby Magnum can more than hold its own as an ultra-long range cartridge when compared to the .270 Weatherby Magnum, and it beats the .270 WSM. Ditto the .264 Winchester Magnum and 6.5x68.

Measured in typical rifles for which each are normally chambered, the .257 Weatherby also kicks noticeably less than all of the other ultra-long range cartridges except the .240 Weatherby Magnum (which cannot compare in killing power). The bottom line is that the .257 Weatherby Magnum is perhaps the ultimate ultra-long range medium game cartridge.
http://www.chuckhawks.com/25caliber_cartridges.htm
sounds pretty good to me!!!
 
.257 Weatherby Magnum is a great long range deer cartridge.
You mentioned 120lb deer at under 200 yards.
You may be better off to go with the 25-06 and Sierra Game Kings. Bullets are much less expensive and he could borrow some from Dad in a pinch.
The 25-06 will give you all the performance you need on that type of deer out to 500 yards.
Less recoil, less cost.
 
First off, how old is that little brother of yours? A .257 Weatherby is NOT really a small case to begin with and it does kick a lot more than any regular varmint or predator caliber like a 22-250, .243, or the 25-06 that is my "Go To Gun" 85% of the time around the acreage we live on nowdays.

I personally would drop him on down to the .243 or the .25-06 calibers. He will end up liking to shoot them chances are better than the Weatherby caliber rifle. This is just an Old Man's humble opinion however, who has taught his own kids and wife to shoot and scores of kids over the last 40 years.
 
i see what you are saying about the recoil yet i don't think it is more then a 270. he shoots a 270 quite a bit....he may be better off with that then the wby...... i don't know yet it will be up to him i just wanted to hear what you all thought about the 257 wby

thanks
 
My old Speer #11 reoading manual shows that the .257 Weatherby has very little, and I do mean VERY little advantage over the .25-06. The Weatherby brass is very expensive, you have to pack a lot more powder into the case just to equal the .25-06 and the barrel life will be shorter. If your choice is between the .257 Weatherby and the .25-06 Remington, I would go with the .25-06.
 


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