Accurizing my weatherby

[JLS]

Maybe a cheap alternative might be to try one of those Limbsaver doohickeys that go on the barrel.  I don't use one, but I seem to recall reading that they do indeed work. 

Also, using the powder charge that you arrived at for accuracy, take those loads and play with the seating depth and see if you can fine tune it a little more.

[Bob33]

I have a dear friend who spends an inordinate amount of his free time handloading. If "x feet per second" is good, then "x + 10 feet per second" is even better. If a 1" group is good, then .9" is even better.

When fall rolls around, he's got a shelf full of great ammunition...and nothing to use it on. He spends no time scouting or researching new places to hunt. He spends no time meeting landowners, or building relationships with existing contacts.

He then bemoans how "fortunate" I am to have so many hunting opportunities, which probably exceed his by a factor of 10 to 1.

After a while I concluded that he must in some obscure manner enjoy this paradox. More power to him.

I'll take my 1.25" MOA guns and kill critters at any reasonable distance I care to shoot. If it's too far for that (which is somewhere north of 500 yards for deer or larger game), then I can get closer, or pass and keep hunting.

[sirmissalot]

Maybe a cheap alternative might be to try one of those Limbsaver doohickeys that go on the barrel.  I don't use one, but I seem to recall reading that they do indeed work. 

Also, using the powder charge that you arrived at for accuracy, take those loads and play with the seating depth and see if you can fine tune it a little more.

We tried messing with seating depths, it really didn't make much of a difference as with weatherbys we can't even come close to touching the lands.

I've never had luck with the Limbsaver barrel deresonators, I did have one on this rifle when I first got it but never saw a difference even when I tried to "tune" it.

Bob, I am tagged out here in washington, have one hunt coming up in two weeks in Montana, then I will have all winter to tinker with things. If I could get a consistent 1.25 MOA out of this rifle I'd be happy, but I cannot. I don't plan on longrange hunting, but my style of hunting I do get shots at 300-400 yards on a regular basis. Getting this rifle as accurate as I can certainly can't hurt anything.

[threedwizard]

You've heard all great advice here. I agree with full float on the barrel, it really helped my .340 Weatherby. I shoot the Barnes TTSX and R21 and they are great. Shoots excellent groups and the bullet is a hammer. Here's my last sight in earlier this year at 200 yards. No complaints here, and my other Weatherby's all shoot this well. Stick with it, the 300 WBY is a great caliber.

[RadSav]

You've heard all great advice here. I agree with full float on the barrel, it really helped my .340 Weatherby. I shoot the Barnes TTSX and R21 and they are great. Shoots excellent groups and the bullet is a hammer. Here's my last sight in earlier this year at 200 yards. No complaints here, and my other Weatherby's all shoot this well. Stick with it, the 300 WBY is a great caliber.

You shoot that with the Ultra Light floated?  Or is it a heavier barrel floated?  If that's the Ultra Light floated that is mighty impressive!

[jay.sharkbait]

You've heard all great advice here. I agree with full float on the barrel, it really helped my .340 Weatherby. I shoot the Barnes TTSX and R21 and they are great. Shoots excellent groups and the bullet is a hammer. Here's my last sight in earlier this year at 200 yards. No complaints here, and my other Weatherby's all shoot this well. Stick with it, the 300 WBY is a great caliber.

Wasn't R21 discontinued in the 70's?

[coachcw]

I floated my .270 ultra light and it shoots lights out

[sirmissalot]

how clean are your first two shots ? whetherby dosnt float the barrel on the lightweights ? I free'd mine up and the three and four shot groups improved 

I'm going to try this at the range tonight coach you may be onto something, my last 300 yard groups have been bugging me and I may have been looking past this

[RadSav]

I floated my .270 ultra light and it shoots lights out

24" Win or 26" Wby?

[Bob33]

FWIW: I have a Weatherby Ultra Light in 257 Wby. Out of the box I could not get it to shoot consistently well.

The bedding job was, politely speaking, horrible. I free floated it, and accuracy improved but not to a point where I was satisified.

I finally gave up and had it rebarreled with a Benchmark barrel. I'm very happy with it now.

[mrolen]

sell it and start over if that is an option. there are better platforms to start from like remington or a tikka

[sirmissalot]

FWIW: I have a Weatherby Ultra Light in 257 Wby. Out of the box I could not get it to shoot consistently well.

The bedding job was, politely speaking, horrible. I free floated it, and accuracy improved but not to a point where I was satisified.

I finally gave up and had it rebarreled with a Benchmark barrel. I'm very happy with it now.

I have the same rifle as well, same thing I've never been impressed with the accuracy.

Do you have a picture of it? I sure like the ultra light weight barrel on these rifles, how heavy of a barrel did you go with? I'd even consider a 24" my 26 with a muzzle break (on the 300) sure gets in the way at times

[threedwizard]

I have a 1 lb. of Reloader 21 here on my bench. Mark V stainless stardard barrel 24". Not an Ultra light, but shouldn't matter much. It took 8 different loads to find the sweet one, and I have the bullet just touch the lands. Builds a lot of pressure, but nothing dangerous. Have shoot over a hundred of these loads in the past decada.

[coachcw]

sell it and start over if that is an option. there are better platforms to start from like remington or a tikka

yu don't work on tikas just shoot them

[RadSav]

I have a 1 lb. of Reloader 21 here on my bench. Mark V stainless stardard barrel 24". Not an Ultra light, but shouldn't matter much. It took 8 different loads to find the sweet one, and I have the bullet just touch the lands. Builds a lot of pressure, but nothing dangerous. Have shoot over a hundred of these loads in the past decada.

Cool!  I didn't know the 340 was offered in a 24" barrel. I also thought it was forbidden to load the TTSX closer than .050" off the lands   Surprised you were able to reach the lands with the extended Weatherby free bore.  I was thinking of getting a 240 Wby for kicks but decided against it due to the free bore issues as I've never had much luck with loads that far off the lands.