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<blockquote data-quote="Paleopete" data-source="post: 5063638" data-attributes="member: 21477"><p>I've had enough exposure to various Deer and Elk Hunting Rifles and actually own a German Made Weatherby 7MM Weatherby Magnum. Honestly, and personally, I think the Weatherby philosophy of "if you put enough powder behind it, it will kill anything" is a sub-optimal. Yes, they are loud and kick like a mule compared to other rifles in a similar category but all that powder doesn't burn efficiently and impacts accuracy in a hunting rifle. I've had no problem dropping Muleys out here in the West with mine but after 3-5 rounds at the range one can see what all that powder really does, just heats up the barrel and accuracy tanks. This is why I am subjecting myself to a custom build of a .284 Winchester using a Borden Ridgeline Action. Now that Borden and a few others are building a 'Medium' action I can obtain the full benefits of this highly efficient yet relatively unknown 7mm cartridge (.284"=7mm). It is a fav for the 600-1000 yard F1 comp shooters and was the most requested hunting rifle build Melvin Forbes was doing back before he sold Ultra-light Arms (and I think he was only using the standard short action he built) .....I also have a Model 99 Savage and Model 100 Winchester in the standard .284 and killed a ton of deer with the model 100 Winchester in spite of it's issues...I've also shot deer with .243, .308 which are the short action little and big brothers to the .284 in terms of bullet size....both are fabulous , fast and accurate but the .284 is superior and, when you can increase the COAL by moving out of the short action, then this cartridge/caliber moves into a class of its own. I fully admit to falling for the Weatherby Hype years ago but owning and shooting both, mainly on deer, this is where I am and putting my $ where my mouth is........it's an expensive and brain racking rabbit hole to go down....(custom build, developing customs loads)...so before you literally & figuratively "pull the Trigger' on that .257 Weatherby I would look at options like the .243, .308/7.62, and 6.5 Creedmoor (the 6.5 Creedmoor looks to be very popular if you are going after deer and pronghorns).....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Paleopete, post: 5063638, member: 21477"] I've had enough exposure to various Deer and Elk Hunting Rifles and actually own a German Made Weatherby 7MM Weatherby Magnum. Honestly, and personally, I think the Weatherby philosophy of "if you put enough powder behind it, it will kill anything" is a sub-optimal. Yes, they are loud and kick like a mule compared to other rifles in a similar category but all that powder doesn't burn efficiently and impacts accuracy in a hunting rifle. I've had no problem dropping Muleys out here in the West with mine but after 3-5 rounds at the range one can see what all that powder really does, just heats up the barrel and accuracy tanks. This is why I am subjecting myself to a custom build of a .284 Winchester using a Borden Ridgeline Action. Now that Borden and a few others are building a 'Medium' action I can obtain the full benefits of this highly efficient yet relatively unknown 7mm cartridge (.284"=7mm). It is a fav for the 600-1000 yard F1 comp shooters and was the most requested hunting rifle build Melvin Forbes was doing back before he sold Ultra-light Arms (and I think he was only using the standard short action he built) .....I also have a Model 99 Savage and Model 100 Winchester in the standard .284 and killed a ton of deer with the model 100 Winchester in spite of it's issues...I've also shot deer with .243, .308 which are the short action little and big brothers to the .284 in terms of bullet size....both are fabulous , fast and accurate but the .284 is superior and, when you can increase the COAL by moving out of the short action, then this cartridge/caliber moves into a class of its own. I fully admit to falling for the Weatherby Hype years ago but owning and shooting both, mainly on deer, this is where I am and putting my $ where my mouth is........it's an expensive and brain racking rabbit hole to go down....(custom build, developing customs loads)...so before you literally & figuratively "pull the Trigger' on that .257 Weatherby I would look at options like the .243, .308/7.62, and 6.5 Creedmoor (the 6.5 Creedmoor looks to be very popular if you are going after deer and pronghorns)..... [/QUOTE]
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