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<blockquote data-quote="Hunter 257W" data-source="post: 4944980" data-attributes="member: 12277"><p>I can't imagine owning a Weatherby chambered rifle and not loading my own ammo. The cost of the factory ammo is ridiculously high. Very few people could afford to shoot one enough to get good with it. Sighting in alone is going to cost a pile. If you load your own, they only extra cost is for the proprietary brass. 460 brass in my experience always develops tiny splits in the radius between neck and case body. It takes a number of shots to do so but you don't shoot the 460 a lot once you get done stacking up stuff to see how much of whatever it will shoot through. I don't recall having a case failure yet in my 257 Weatherby so case cost isn't that bad if life is long.</p><p></p><p>If I didn't load my own however, I'd still be using my 25-06. There is no way the 200-300 ft/sec velocity increase with the 257 Weatherby compared to a 25-06 is worth the double or triple ammo cost for factory loads in both.</p><p></p><p> I almost forgot about how much i shot my 460 when I 1st got it. I used the Hornady steel jacketed 500 grain solids a lot for a while. You could get them for about $22/100. But even that got expensive once i found out that they would penetrate incredible thicknesses of wood and other materials. Then i started loading a 500 grain cast bullet from the Lee mold actually made for the 45-70 since the bullet diameter was .457. I'd download them to something like the 458 Lott. I actually shot a good sized tree down by the barn one day by shooting nearly 30 of those into it. The great thing was that those bullets even with the gas check cost less than 3 cents each back then (1987). My shoulder would give out way before my wallet did. That same bullet now costs more like 6 cents each mainly due to the increase in gas check cost. Powder is something like $8 per 20 rounds. Primers about 75 cents. About $10 will cover my current cost to shoot a 500 grain cast at around 2,200 ft/sec not counting brass cost. That's where total cost can go up fast. If you have to pay $3 each and they fail after 6 shots that adds another 50 cents per shot or $10 per 20 rounds.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Hunter 257W, post: 4944980, member: 12277"] I can't imagine owning a Weatherby chambered rifle and not loading my own ammo. The cost of the factory ammo is ridiculously high. Very few people could afford to shoot one enough to get good with it. Sighting in alone is going to cost a pile. If you load your own, they only extra cost is for the proprietary brass. 460 brass in my experience always develops tiny splits in the radius between neck and case body. It takes a number of shots to do so but you don't shoot the 460 a lot once you get done stacking up stuff to see how much of whatever it will shoot through. I don't recall having a case failure yet in my 257 Weatherby so case cost isn't that bad if life is long. If I didn't load my own however, I'd still be using my 25-06. There is no way the 200-300 ft/sec velocity increase with the 257 Weatherby compared to a 25-06 is worth the double or triple ammo cost for factory loads in both. I almost forgot about how much i shot my 460 when I 1st got it. I used the Hornady steel jacketed 500 grain solids a lot for a while. You could get them for about $22/100. But even that got expensive once i found out that they would penetrate incredible thicknesses of wood and other materials. Then i started loading a 500 grain cast bullet from the Lee mold actually made for the 45-70 since the bullet diameter was .457. I'd download them to something like the 458 Lott. I actually shot a good sized tree down by the barn one day by shooting nearly 30 of those into it. The great thing was that those bullets even with the gas check cost less than 3 cents each back then (1987). My shoulder would give out way before my wallet did. That same bullet now costs more like 6 cents each mainly due to the increase in gas check cost. Powder is something like $8 per 20 rounds. Primers about 75 cents. About $10 will cover my current cost to shoot a 500 grain cast at around 2,200 ft/sec not counting brass cost. That's where total cost can go up fast. If you have to pay $3 each and they fail after 6 shots that adds another 50 cents per shot or $10 per 20 rounds. [/QUOTE]
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