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.270's are bletchy to me too. Couldn't even say why. Just a silly chambering....... Lol...

Nice talking today Bob!

Put me also in the NO 270's! camp.

Been shooting a 257WBY built on a model 70 for quite a few yers now. Barrel life is in the thousands of rounds with moly and not over heating the barrel at range sessions. GO ROY and don't look back. 100gr TTSX's at 3800fps are just plain wicked on deer and such with no recoil to speak of. FUN FUN FUN!!!!

I've yet to own a .257Roy, but shot coyotewallace's, and saw him take a few deer with his.

I've seen deer go down faster, but only because the ones shot with the 257Roy were too busy shivering like they were electrocuted to drop instantly. And, that didn't matter whether it was at 20 yards, or 420 yards; the result was the same.

A more wicked round, I've never seen.

That's it, boys. Keep working on him 'til he comes over to the dark side with the rest of us.

But, in all seriousness, I have to agree with VAnimmrod's observation. Everything I've ever shot with my .257 Wby has practically blown up in flames. That alone has been worth the price of admission.

Ditto

It will be a 25-06 or 257 Roy for sure now.

Lol. FWIW it sounds like you might be paying a fair bit for a 'semi-custom' rifle. Our 'wants' and 'preferences' are often not entirely logical, although there are logic reasons for them. Other alternatives might be to find a 'donor' action somewhere more cheaply than purchasing it new. As long as it's the right length it should work - perhaps one of the less popular chamberings might be found on sale somewhere?

this'ns a new haven classic rebarreled by Redneck...



i've posted the pic before... it was taken about 1 1/2 years ago...
the grin is still there when i pick that rifle up....

it's a standard chambered 25-06... thought about the AI thing, but i don't do the volume of shooting to benefit from the easier loading...

no doubt in my mind that i went the right way on this call....

Ill vote for your 25-06 Rem. as this is a top notch long range rifle that can kill game as far off as you can shoot it well as the 25-06 Imp. was P.O. Ackleys least favorite Imp cartridge and the 257 Roberts Imp. was his favorite but it has the same ballistics as the 25-06 so why go thru all the BULL to end up at the same place as I had a 257 Wby years ago that I just loved to hate and after that chapter in life Ill never own another Weatherby ever,unless you are Matthew Quigley a 25-06 will kill anything that 257 Wby can with less powder consumption and your barrel will live a lot longer to boot........

JM- Go with the 257. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE...

Just to give you a bit more food for thought, here's a shot of my .257. You can think of it as "semi-custom" at a bargain price. It began life as a plain-Jane Weathery Vanguard with the tupperware stock. It wasn't a sub-MOA model (I have one of those, as well), but it shot sub-MOA out of the box.

My only modifications were to drop it into a Wby. Fiberguard tan/black stock (pillar bedding) and swap out the trigger for a Timney, which upgrades from a two-position to a three-position safety. It wears a Leupold VX-II 3-9X40 scope with the long range duplex reticle. I feed it factory 120-grain Nosler Partition loads which have a muzzle velocity of around 3300 fps. (The 100-grain TSX, by the way, is advertised at 3570 fps while the 100-grain spire point tops 3600 fps). Sighted three inches high at 100 yards with the NPs, it's dead on at 300 yards. It shoots .75 in. groups or better all day long.

If you don't believe the 120-grain NPs are a piece of pure hell downrange, ask the long list of animals I've taken with this rifle. Oh, I forgot, they all went BANG FLOP! To date, that list includes a number of big whitetails and mulies, numerous large hogs, a javelina, a couple of pronghorns and a couple of coyotes that were in the wrong place at wrong time. Distances varied from halitosis range to over 300 yards.

Will it do anything a 25-06 won't do? Not really. It just does it with more emphasis and style. This may come as a shock to some... but if I had to part with all of the rifles in my collection save one, this would be the one I'd keep. Almost everyone I've hunted with, while carrying this rifle, has tried to buy it off me. Needless to say, that's not gonna happen...

Still not convinced? OK, chicks DIG guys who shoot 257 Wby.

Honest.

So come on over to the dark side...

Oh for crying out loud--just buy a M700 in 25-06 and be done with it.

Besides, even most of the older M700's in 25-06 came with 24 inch barrels--which practically makes them a 257 Wthby anyway.......



Casey

Quit it. He's wavering...

The dark side is calling, JM.

there is nothing wrong with, and i do admire the .257by...

if my model 70 had had a magnum boltface....

I think you should hold out for a Winchester M70 in 25/06 and then have a different make action screwed on.

http://www.migunowners.org/forum/showthread.php?t=104095


not mine, but it's just what the doctor ordered!!

That's fugly

Yeah...that is hideous...and owned by someone who is obviously delusional...

Hard to argue against a .25-06, especially here. My experiences of the .25-06 vs the .270 for big whitetail, is that the .25-06 simply takes more tracking. I have never hunted around a .257WBY, but I have friends that say it is a bang/flop.

FWIW, I have never understood why Winchester used the WSSM platform for their short 25. We could be discussing a .25WSM.

Apparently your friends know how to shoot.

257 Wby = no tracking.