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Slightly less than 30-378.
Like a Harley you pay for the name, at least the BEEs provide performance!

It's quite the premium to pay though. 270Wby really only beats the old 270Win by 300fps. 10% more velocity for double the price.

Don't get me wrong Weatherby has been king for a while now and make cool cartridges, but the new Nosler cartridges have dethroned many of them, including the 270Wby. I've been trying to talk myself into a 257Wby or 270Wby for a while now. I might have to switch that to a 26 Nosler or 27 Nosler.
 

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I have a 257 wby mag and I am thinking about trying to reload for it but hear it's a nightmare. May have to sell and find a different caliber.

Shells are pricey
 

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It's quite the premium to pay though. 270Wby really only beats the old 270Win by 300fps. 10% more velocity for double the price.

Don't get me wrong Weatherby has been king for a while now and make cool cartridges, but the new Nosler cartridges have dethroned many of them, including the 270Wby. I've been trying to talk myself into a 257Wby or 270Wby for a while now. I might have to switch that to a 26 Nosler or 27 Nosler.

Depends what you want to shoot.
The Nosler is for sure a bit faster BUT, figure in the small difference in ammo cost, higher cost to reload the Nosler, rifle cost, more recoil and even if you are very very nice to the barrel good luck getting 500 round out of a barrel before accuracy fades away.
3% (120fps) faster than the Weatherby using about 15% more powder according to Nosler load data for the 140 Accubond in both cartridges, I would not cough up the coin and headachs that will come with a 27 Nosler.
There will be sadness for a lot of Nosler owners when they realise what all comes with the 27 or any of the Noslers below 30 cal.
Going into a Nosler you need to know what you are getting.
If you want economical power the 300 Win Mag is tough to beat.
Then there is "what one wants", not what makes sense.
I always wanted one Weatherby, and the 270 is the one I chose, I have never been disappointed in the performance, but for sure there is extra cost.
Depends what one's want is.
 
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Depends what you want to shoot.
The Nosler is for sure fast BUT, figure in the small difference in ammo cost, higher cost to reload, rifle cost, recoil and even if you are very nice to the barrel good luck getting 500 round out of a barrel before accuracy fades away.
3% faster than the Weatherby using about 15% more powder according to Nosler load data for the 140 Accubond, I would not cough up the coin and headachs that will come with a 27 Nosler.
There will be sadness for a lot of Nosler owners when they realise what all comes with the 27 or any of the Noslers. Going into one you need to know what you are getting.
If you want economical power the 300 Win Mag is tough to beat.
Then there is "what one wants", not what makes sense.
I always wanted one Weatherby, and the 270 is the one I chose, I have never been disappointed in the performance, but for sure there is extra cost.
Depends what one's want is.

Agreed, it's a specialty cartridge that may or may not exist in another 10 years. If I got one I'd also setup for handloading at the same time.

But it's more a want than anything, my 270Win would drop anything I could encounter around here, maybe not as quick as a bigger cartridge, but a solid lung shot with it would do the job even on a moose.

Realistically if practicality and economy was everyone's primary concern we'd probably all just shoot 30-06's.
 

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Great to hear. Son in law says pricing is good on everything he has looked at

This is a small business that I believe is just starting out.
$77 a box -ordered 4 more boxes
Big box store was $114
 
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Get into reloads, buddy and I reload my 257 to 117 hornady shoots wicked fast and extremely accurate. Any quality ammo for a bee is close to 120 a box or more. I buy thr 100grain for 69.00 and shoot coyotes, wolves or Bambi's just to get the brass.
 

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I have the reloading supplies - dies, powder measure, case trimmer, RCS rockchuker, need a new tumbler.
Use to load for 357, 6mm, an 3006.
I have brass and dies for both the 300RUNM and 270 Weatherby but typically shoot less than a box a year so been lazy and just buy.
For sure you are correct and performance wise both would benefit from hand loads and be half price ish.
Might have to unlazy myself.
 

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I have the reloading supplies - dies, powder measure, case trimmer, RCS rockchuker, need a new tumbler.
Use to load for 357, 6mm, an 3006.
I have brass and dies for both the 300RUNM and 270 Weatherby but typically shoot less than a box a year so been lazy and just buy.
For sure you are correct and performance wise both would benefit from hand loads and be half price ish.
Might have to unlazy myself.
Absolutely love to shoot the 257 packs a big punch for a small cal and zero kick.
 

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Absolutely love to shoot the 257 packs a big punch for a small cal and zero kick.

Guy at work has one and he dropped a nice bull elk with one shot last year on my farm.
The 257 is Weatherby's overachiever for sure, big power from a small bore.
 

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Tried some of the Weatherby Select Premium with 140AB lead and they work really really well in my Mark V RC 270.
Each pic is of a thee shot group, steel plate was at 250 yards and two are touching, tree with my fingers in pic was at 409ys and the last group was at 601yards and I knew I pulled one even before I got out to tree (up and to the right 5").
Was shooting off of my 400# table and over a sack of barley, just using the bipod on the table has the same results but take longer to aim.
Barrel cooled between groups for about 10 minutes.

Slow careful bench shooting, I do not have a hope in hell of replicating this in the field hunting!
 

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Had my 257 weatherby out on the weekend put new optics on 3-24x56 bushnell forge shot a group of 3 the size of a loonie at 200meters now working a range card to shoot 300, 400 and 500 very solid and accurate gun

Do you have a program for making your range card? Do you own a chronograph?, Or are you doing it by shooting distances to see your drop?
 
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My buddy has the chronograph and a program only thing is the scope uses 1 click = .5cm @ 100m so not your normal setup but we will figure it.
 

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I just loaded up a bunch for the .300 RUM. Will have to break out the chrono and build the loads again to be safe as I am using my load data from my last rifle and it was built on a Winchester action where as this is a true RMR .300 Ultra on a Remington action. I’d say just start loading Randy rather than chasing ammo. I have 3 boxes of Nosler Trophy Grade I hunt with in 165 TTSX/180 NAB/ and 210 NAB. So my reloads are just for at the range.
 

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I just loaded up a bunch for the .300 RUM. Will have to break out the chrono and build the loads again to be safe as I am using my load data from my last rifle and it was built on a Winchester action where as this is a true RMR .300 Ultra on a Remington action. I’d say just start loading Randy rather than chasing ammo. I have 3 boxes of Nosler Trophy Grade I hunt with in 165 TTSX/180 NAB/ and 210 NAB. So my reloads are just for at the range.

Ladder test/velocity cluster, works very well.
 
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If anyone comes across a couple boxes of loaded 300wsm and has the barnes tsx or ttsx bullet on top, please let me know. Thanks.
 

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If anyone comes across a couple boxes of loaded 300wsm and has the barnes tsx or ttsx bullet on top, please let me know. Thanks.
Unfortunately cabelas is usually where I find a decent selection of 300 wsm, my local gun shops don't typically carry it, not very popular in these parts.

I like it for the short action bush/moose gun.
 
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