Give me a .270 and Partitions and I'll show you dead elk until you're sick of looking at dead elk.
It's always been the Indian, not the arrow.
Pretty hard to argue with this.
The 300 Weatherby is no doubt a great elk cartridge. But today the world is so full of great elk cartridges you can't keep up with them all.
Personally I'd rather have a 7mm Mashburn. It kicks less.
Bob, my 300 B is in a Blaser R8, 8.5 lbs scoped. I don't know what it is--it certainly kicks but doesn't seem excessive to me at all. Maybe it was all those years of lighting the 340's fire. 😳 😀
George recoil is SO subjective. But after a few sessions with a hunting weight 340, the 300 Weatherby can feel trifling.
I feel like the Mashburn offers the same down-level of recoil from a 300 Weatherby,that the 300 Weatherby does from a 340.....which makes sense because in each case we're burning less powder and shooting lighter bullets.
I do get to shoot 300 Weatherby now and then, side by side with the Mashburn. My buddy has a 300 Weatherby and I have owned several.
