@@ReloadingWeatherby did you ever measure your barrel to determine if it's a 24 or 26 ? Most vanguards chambered the 300 are a 24 depending on era. If it is a 24 get a 26 inch or upgrade to the mark v. The gain in velocity is worth it.
I have a Winchester model 70 factory chambered in 300 Wby. Reloading for it is really the only way to feed that beast. Sub moa, fast as lightning and hits like a cannon should. Always a relative caliber, especially with the newer Nosler 210 LRAB. 👌
Was also thinking about the Vanguard, it's probably the most value for the money of any rifle presently for sale in the states. Its also one of the most accurate, well-built rifles available .
FYI - an interesting bit of trivia worth checking out: the “double-radius” shoulder was reportedly created (at least in part) to prevent “shade tree gunsmiths” from chambering for it, therefore ensuring that someone wanting a Weatherby chambering would have to actually buy a Weatherby rifle.
The .300 rum is fading into history and the .300 wm is still very popular. Shot a friend's mark 5 fibermark with a brake years ago and it was a pleasant experience. Love my .240 and .257 in the vanguard platform very much. Smashing power with light recoil !
The 300 WBY I have it was my daddy's gun he bought it new. it made in japan. it's been in the family a long time my daddy had it now i do I'll keep it till the end.
Anyone who really knows anything about rifles & cartridges knows that the 300 Weatherby is one of the finest cartridges ever created. The new development of the .300 RUM was hyped as the new king. The great supreme of the greatest 30 caliber cartridge! Bulls**t! In truth, the RUM reaches about 90 fps faster if you’re following safe reloading practices. I ask you, is there a recognizable difference in the field? I think not. What did Remington say when they unveiled the RUM? “Ladies and gentlemen, we introduce you to a reinvention of the wheel!” The 300 Weatherby has had outstanding success the world over for around 80 years!
IMHO for hunting in North America, I only need two cartridges, The .300 Weatherby and the 30.06. With various loads on those two cartridges, you can put down any game in NA.
I run a 150gr ttsx with 70.2 gr of RX22 not sure what the velocity is but it worked well this year on a black bear and a whitetail. Both animals were unable to move more than 5 yards after the shot. Hopefully next elk season I get to try it on an elks ribcage lol. 😎😎
In the early 70s I knew a fellow who would load his own shells for competition shoots that were from 400 to 1000 yards. He had a scare in his eyebrow from the recoil. For him making the shot was everything.
Since I was a pup, I wanted a rifle with Weatherby in its name. A few years ago, I found a series 1 Vanguard Weatherguard in .300 Wby at a fall off the back of the truck price. Without much though, I pounced. When it arrived, I went searching for ammo. That was when I discovered why the bargain price. NONE of the shops in the area had ANY. Online it was available but, DAMN. I love the rifle but haven’t shot it much since purchase. About to get into reloading, so hopefully that’ll change.
First, Weatherby Magnum rifles and cartridges were never intended for everyone; don't recall ever seeing one for sale at Walmart or J.C. Penny, when I bought my first shotgun, a 12 Guage Remington 870 back in 1970. It is a learned appreciation gained over many years of understanding, and familiarity with the rifle and the chosen rounds. This is often evidenced by the uninformed comment, "...I'll never spend that much for a 'barrel burner' that I can't shoot without having to replace the barrel after just a few hundred rounds..." Or, my favorite, "eighty to a hundred bucks for a box of cartridges, no way in hell!" Uhhhh Reload maybe? My point is, it's like anything else. You buy what you want, and as always a good practice, buy what you can afford. I have been shooting Weatherby rifles and cartridges for over thirty years. I own others but when it comes right down to it I will always prefer Weatherby, mainly due to the hard research and velocity/ballistics development work done by Roy Weatherby, nearly eighty years ago. To each his own!
I love the quality of Wby rifles, and kick myself in the ass for loosing out on traditional “safari”style rifle a few months back, in 375 H&H. It had neither the high gloss or Monte Carlo stock I tend to dislike. But I love the Wby actions, especially the ones produced by Sauer, in Germany. My qualm with Weatherby’s cartridges is they are overbored, just like today’s Nosler cartridges.
@@falba1492 If you snooze you lose, or so the saying goes. I have a total of eight, five Mark V and three Vanguard models. Five are chambered for Wby Mag cartridges. They were collected over the past thirty years. I have not sold a one yet, and don't intend to. Once you get used to cycling that silky smooth action, it's hard to beat it with any other non-custom made rifle. Not a single problem with any of them, and they all have retained excellent barrel condition. I handload for all of my rifles and handguns. These eight have all continued to produce the manufacturer's guaranteed MOA, and have transferred many a buck from field to wall to freezer. The "over bore" is what makes them Weatherby Magnum calibers. That was Roy Weatherby's intent all along. Not sure how you'd get those super velocities with their proven superior ballistics otherwise. My felt recoil from the "overbores" is tamed by AccuBrakes on the .30 and .338 calibers, plus years of shooting them. In my opinion, which is based on my actual experience, (not RU-vid blather) they are the closest thing to firearm and cartridge perfection, for all of my varied hunting and shooting pursuits. Of course, individual results and opinions may vary...and that's fine.
@@bustabass9025 - I meant to mention Walmart had some Vanguards, heavily discounted in my local Walmart, about three years ago lol. When I was a kid, there was an English gunsmith that lived in my neighborhood. He went to Africa just after WWI, and emigrated to the US in the 60’s. Quite the character, and a very experienced man. He once told me that he’d take mass over velocity any day. Parts were scarce, and hunting was plentiful, so shooting out a barrel was not an option. He was a huge fan of the 303 British and the 375 H&H. He thought the 308 was a nifty caliber too. I confess, that kind of influenced me in my choices, because I love to shoot. So my trusty 270 Win, is about as overbored as I’d like to get. I had a love for the 264 Win Mag, as a kid. Cut my teeth reloading for it. I shot out the barrel over the summer (it was a used rifle), and the soured me on extremely overbored cartridges. There are horses for courses, and the Weatherby cartridges don’t really fit my style of hunting and shooting. But if they fit yours, more power to you. I remember Weatherby cartridges fondly as a kid, and my uncle in California, who was mad over anything Weatherby. Roy was the quintessential American entrepreneur.
@@falba1492 A lot has changed since these rifles and cartridges were first introduced nearly eighty years ago. The Vanguard offering and its distribution channels certainly represent one such change, compared to the initial Mark V and its then main arteries of supply to the consumer. Like I said, opinions and preferences vary, and unlike some people, I reiterate, "I'm fine with that". Said opinions (usually as uninformed as they are) are as plentiful as the myriad of cartridges, rifles, ballistics and all other things firearm related, that fuel most of the condescending, snarky, and in some cases out right rude opinings known all too well.
@@ReloadingWeatherby - The Barnes are monolithics. Unlike a cup and core, greater velocity is always better. I use the 175 grain LRX in my 300 H&H, so I keep it under 350 yards, in order to have enough velocity for proper expansion. I like a minimum of 2,400 ft./s, which probably puts your Weatherby out to 400 yards. The 130 grain TTSX would go out even further. The problem with the monolithics is you get a lot of copper fowling.
@@ReloadingWeatherby - No sir, they are much tougher than any lead core bullet. You can almost say they are the quintessential Weatherby bullet, they love speed.
Just ordered 2 new rifles the ruger #1 in 257 weathetby and another 300 weathetby with improved twist rate and gonna be hunting with the 6.5-300 weatherby today and tomorrow
Excellent video. I enjoy your videos and content. It’s not shown on this video but, other videos, I was wondering where you got that really cool 300 Weatherby Magnum ammo box?
I like the 300 wsm for efficent cartridge as it may not be as fast but the extra powder will save ya in long run if you want power at a less cost then weatherby as it pays to play with weatherby
What really hurts this very nice cartridge is: 1) almost exclusively chambered in Wby rifles( there were some options before) 2) all rifles are extremely light.( long sessions and REALLY accurate shooting call for 10 lbs +).
i load for .300 Wby Mag myself using NORMA MRP behind a 180 gr. sierra boattail bullet...dont have a chronograph, but according to quickload program max in this powder is 3220 fps !! 84,7 gr. MRP.... i heard other getting over 3300 fps with 180 gr. using H-1000 powder...thats superfast , remember 3280 fps equals 1000 m/s!!
Backcountry ti 2.0 is an awesome rifle. Good thing it has a brake. A 5lb rifle chambered in 300 WBY? That's a lot of recoil. I have had good success with IMR 7828 SSC and H4831 SSC. I've also have heard H1000 is really good.
@@ReloadingWeatherby thanks a lot for the prompt reply. I’ve been kicking around that rifle for a while and to be honest was worried about the recoil for sure. Maybe the 6.5 300 or the rpm would be a better choice in a rifle at that weight.
The 300 wby mag is based off the 375 H&H, not the 300 H&H. The 300 H&H was also based off the 375 H&H but it has a tapered case to the shoulder, and not the straight case to the neck like 375 H&H. The 300 Weatherby shares the straight wall to shoulder case like it's parent case the 375. Having said that, you can safely shoot and fire form 300 wby rounds from the tapered 300 H&H rounds in a rifle chambered in 300 wby.
Fun fact, you can fireform 300H&H cartridges into 300Wby cases....bet you can't do that with a 375H&H cartridge. One more for the road, you can fireform 375H&H cartridges into 375Wby cases. I give a nod to the 300H&H being the parent cartridge and the 375 being the grandparent.
i have shot a long tine the load i us 190 grn berger 87 grn of H 1000 MY Velosite is 3150 i shoot at 600 yds and 1000 yds that is a good load WLRM PLIMERS IT WORKS devistating
So let me ask you this since you have way more experience with the 300 wby. If I loaded it with the 130 weight, how flat is it? I have the 6.5 prc and it’s pretty flat shooting but with the 300 wby case and a bullet with 130 weight, would that be the same as the 6.5-300 wby or better?
I will have to run some ballistics to see, but my guess is the 130 in the 300 WBY would be flatter out to 400 yards over the 6.5 PRC and 6.5-300. But eventually the higher b.c. 6.5 130 would beat it. Okay I ran the numbers and the 300 WBY with the 130 is flatter than the 6.5 PRC with a 130 out to 800 yards. The 300 is flatter than the 6.5-300 out to 500. But it's really close.
For the amount of muzzle blast and recoil of the 300 Wby, I honestly think you’d do better stepping up to a 338 Win Mag. Recoil is practically the same, but you can load much heavier projectiles, and have greater frontal area. It’s too much power for a lowly 30 cal. I reload, so I preferred the 300 H&H, Roy was trying to outdo in 1944. But it’s true, that Weatherby name brings back a great deal of nostalgia, hunting California as a kid, in the late 70’s early 80’s with my uncle.
If I was going to step up to a 338 caliber.... I would be too tempted to just get a 340 Weatherby. Yeah the recoil would be rough.... but worth it for me
@@ReloadingWeatherby - Lol, this becomes a vicious circle. So for a bit less recoil, I went with a 375 H&H. Again for the same reasons, more mass and frontal area. My next step up would be a 416 Rem Mag or Rigby. Btw, the 416 Wby is ONE HELL of a handful. Roy Weatherby‘s philosophy was small mess, high velocity. My personal preference is large mass with a slower velocity. I’m toying with the idea of a 9.3x62, which inside of 350 yards does everything my 338 Win Mag does, but with less recoil and velocity. All the same, Roy deserves all the accolades we can bestow on him. A true American entrepreneur.
Not yet. 300 Win mag outsells all the other 30 caliber magnums, and the most popular 7mm magnum is the 7mm Rem mag. Will the newer non belted magnums overtake those two? Maybe. The RUM certainly hasn't.
tht 130 gr@ 3766 fps is EXTREMELY FAST , wonder wht load u use for tht......its funny tht the .300 wby doesnt lag lot behind the LAZZERONI'S behemoth 7.82 warbird SENDING THE same 130 gr. to 4000 fps!!
@@ReloadingWeatherby ok, thnx for sharing your data....here in norway we dont have access to IMR -line of powders unfortunately , mostly NORMA powders and of course finnish VITHAvuori POWDERS...BY THE WAY my rifle is a EUROSPORTER 26 " Brrl.
