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Equipment & Gear => Guns and Ammo => Topic started by: Hilltop123 on September 30, 2016, 05:06:10 PM

Title: Weatherby Mark V Accumark
Post by: Hilltop123 on September 30, 2016, 05:06:10 PM: Does anyone on here have any hands on experience, with this rifle? If so, what is your thoughts, opinions and or gripes? Looking to replace my 700 CDL. Thanks in advance.
Title: Re: Weatherby Mark V Accumark
Post by: JimmyHoffa on September 30, 2016, 05:18:19 PM: It's okay, don't have any real complaints. The lugs seem kind of small given the rounds they usually have to hold back. Safety isn't as smooth as I like, and you have to take off Safe to open the bolt. Disassembly is pretty easy until you're down to the extractor.
Title: Re: Weatherby Mark V Accumark
Post by: Hilltop123 on September 30, 2016, 05:34:59 PM: Quote from: JimmyHoffa on September 30, 2016, 05:18:19 PM
It's okay, don't have any real complaints. The lugs seem kind of small given the rounds they usually have to hold back. Safety isn't as smooth as I like, and you have to take off Safe to open the bolt. Disassembly is pretty easy until you're down to the extractor.
"It's Okay" Is that an OK, as in, it was money well spent? Or it's OK, wish I had directed those monies, somewhere else. What year was your Accumark, manufactured?
Title: Re: Weatherby Mark V Accumark
Post by: JimmyHoffa on September 30, 2016, 06:31:29 PM: Oh it seems well made and goes all over the place with me--so well spent. Not a safe queen, but not a fondler for when company comes over. I guess just from a design pov, I kind of like a little overbuilt. The right hand side rail on the receiver is kind of light for my liking. The nine lugs are strong, but I would've beefed them up a bit more. The front of the port of the receiver has a notch cut out to allow for the rounds being longer than would fit long actions--I would've lengthened the receiver. I know they did all these like they did to keep weight down. I think 2004 or 2005.
Title: Re: Weatherby Mark V Accumark
Post by: BeWitty on September 30, 2016, 07:10:44 PM: My Dad and I purchased twin .300 WBY Mark V Ultralights back in 2009 when Sportsmans was discontinuing them. They are both amazing shooters with good triggers and came with the factory muzzle brakes.

Both easily shoot sub MOA (.5-.75). We have never had any problems or complaints.
Title: Re: Weatherby Mark V Accumark
Post by: Bofire on September 30, 2016, 07:26:59 PM: Keep your CDL.
Carl
Title: Re: Weatherby Mark V Accumark
Post by: Hilltop123 on September 30, 2016, 07:32:59 PM: Quote from: Bofire on September 30, 2016, 07:26:59 PM
Keep your CDL.
Carl
I plan on keeping my CDL, just the wife made a statement, "then get a new rifle". So I'm glassing the field.
Title: Re: Weatherby Mark V Accumark
Post by: Branden on September 30, 2016, 07:53:23 PM: So many good rifles out there in that price range. I don't think I would buy a Weatherby unless I just had to have one of the Weatherby calibers.

That said I have one in 30-378 and it is my go to elk gun. Fairly accurate for a stock rifle with nothing done to it.

Regards, Branden
Title: Re: Weatherby Mark V Accumark
Post by: 4T on September 30, 2016, 08:48:19 PM: I had one a few years back, I took it on an elk hunt in Idaho and sold it later that season. I didn't like packing it around the hills all day. It was pretty heavy. But it shot really well.
Title: Re: Weatherby Mark V Accumark
Post by: BeWitty on September 30, 2016, 08:51:52 PM: Ultralight with scope is 8.5 lbs. Certainly not too heavy to pick around, especially considering the long range ability.
Title: Re: Weatherby Mark V Accumark
Post by: slm9s on September 30, 2016, 09:32:53 PM: Quote from: BeWitty on September 30, 2016, 08:51:52 PM
Ultralight with scope is 8.5 lbs. Certainly not too heavy to pick around, especially considering the long range ability.

Except the original question referred to the Accumark.

I've had three. All were well built and accurate. If you're packing it to your treestand or just to the end of the landing while your road-hunting it would be a great choice. For walking uphill all day there are much better choices.
Title: Re: Weatherby Mark V Accumark
Post by: 270Shooter on September 30, 2016, 11:02:15 PM: Never shot one but I hate the saftey
Title: Re: Weatherby Mark V Accumark
Post by: walter351 on October 12, 2016, 07:39:12 PM: I have had extensive hands on experience with 3 different accumarks. 1 30-378, we nicknamed it donkey, and two 7mm STWs (yes they chambered this round for a couple years). Every single one of them has been a shooter (.5-.75). I currently hunt with a 300 Wby in a deluxe model that I put in a McMillan stock that shots consistently in the .2 range and I am building another 300 wby on a winchester M70 action. An accumark is hard to beat for the price but they are heavy. My style of hunting changed significantly when I started hunting in Idaho, and I spend a lot more time backpacking in. One of the members to our cult (elk camp 😉) bought an ultra lightweight in 300 Wby and we could only muster a 1.25" group. He sent it back to Weatherby and they bedded the action and it now shoots .5". I have witnessed him shoot a 3x4 buck at 700 yards. With that said what is stopping you from building a custom off your 700 action? A good gunsmith is worth their weight in gold IMO. You get to pick the components and decide the weight of the rifle. I have yet to have a custom rifle that won't shoot.
Title: Re: Weatherby Mark V Accumark
Post by: b23 on October 13, 2016, 08:36:00 AM: I've owned two Accumarks. First one was a 300 Wby mag. when they first came out, back then they came with a HS Precision stock, it shot extremely well. Seemed like just about any 180gr bullet I put through it would group in the 5/8-3/4 range. At the time it was the only centerfire rifle I owned so it got used for everything from coyotes to elk.

Then I got the idea I needed a big 338 so I bought a 338-378. It had a B&C stock that looked the same as the one that came on my first one but the fit was for sh1t and the barreled action didn't sit square in the stock, big gap on one side small gap on the other. I don't think the stock had anything to do with how it shot but it looked like crap and not what you'd expect from a gun with that kind of price tag. It shot just "ok" certainly not like my 300 though.

With any factory gun I think it's luck of the draw on if you get one with a good barrel or not. I wouldn't say they're a bad choice but for what they cost you're starting to creep into the price range of a semi custom and I'd take my chances with a used low round count semi custom like a Rem 700 that's had the action trued up and wears a aftermarket barrel before I'd buy a new Weatherby Accumark.