Any 300 wby loaders?? Questions??

[Anonymous 510]

Which load data would you trust I've loaded afew up to 76.0 gr and been fine so far... but Barnes states that's the minimum load that's one heck of a difference from hodgdons... any Insight would be nice...would just keep working up the latter 2 find the load for my rifle but don't want 2 keep burning through projectiles... but on the other hand i might just have 2 but figured i would at least ask here maybe someone knows...rifle I'm using for this is a Weatherby mark V 300 wby mag...Thank you for your time...

Read More

 

[JRuby]

I dont know the answer but I can tell you how I would aproach it. I would start out at 76 grains as it is high on one load but low on the other, splitting the difference. You might want to use a third resource for a sanity check. I load 180g partitions with 7828. To me using such a light bullet defeats the purpose of the 300 weatherby - guess thats just me.

 

[Koda]

any Insight would be nice...would just keep working up the latter 2 find the load for my rifle but don't want 2 keep burning through projectiles... but on the other hand i might just have 2

I would pick the low one and run a pressure ladder in .5gn increments, 1rd ea. till you find max. Should not be very many rounds.

 

[Local Loader]

Spreer say 74gr min; 78gr max
Hornady says 66.3gr min; 80.4gr max
This is their start/max numbers for 150gr bullets, I'd say find the average start/max weights and go from there

 

[Anonymous 510]

Thanks for all the feedback all much appreciated

 

[DirectDrive]

I dont know the answer but I can tell you how I would aproach it. I would start out at 76 grains as it is high on one load but low on the other, splitting the difference. You might want to use a third resource for a sanity check. I load 180g partitions with 7828. To me using such a light bullet defeats the purpose of the 300 weatherby - guess thats just me.

Yep, a 150 gr bullet is not what a 300 Weatherby was made for.
You can do it, but you might as well use a .308
180gr - 200gr can be driven to very nice speeds by a 300 Weatherby.
That's the sweet spot.