I particularly recall an article on the. 340 Weatherby that got my attention.
Yeah, me too. I'm still plotting a build of a .340. M700? M70? Pretty wood or tough, stable synthetic, or maybe laminate?
IIRC he used a 340 Wby to kill a big bear up in Alaska? I still have that issue, amongst a pile of classics. (Rifle or Successful Hunter?)
The name of that article is "Bear Odessey". Read it if you have the opportunity. I think it was one of the better hunting magazine articles written. I believe it was in the arly years of Successful Hunter.
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"Bear Odyssey" was in one of the Rifle Magazine Hunting Annuals that came before "Successful Hunter." Seyfried wrote that he traded his favorite "fighting rifle," a 416 Rigby, for his favorite "Hunting Rifle," a 340 Weatherby built on a Champlin action, on the hunt where he took the bear pictured in the article because of the distances he encountered on his first few hunts in the area. It is probably one of the top five most compellingly written articles to appear in a Wolfe Publishing magazine.
