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Hard to beat a pair of Aces. Father & son matched pair in 300 Win Mag. Pillar bedded in Marine-tex, free floated Krieger barrels, single point recut receiver threads, 3.600" magazine length with long loading eject/load port, etc...etc...etc...

You can buy ammo almost anywhere. Too bad you can't say that for the 300 H&H.



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300 H&H for me.

There is no shortage of .300 magnums on the market. From the .300 RCM to the .30-378 Weatherby and a whole bunch in between. What is your favorite and why?

... You can buy ammo almost anywhere. Too bad you can't say that for the 300 H&H. ...

There is no shortage of .300 magnums on the market. From the .300 RCM to the .30-378 Weatherby and a whole bunch in between. What is your favorite and why?

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Roll my own H&H. Have plenty of components on hand. Don't get out often. When I do, I put at least one box of cartridges in each piece of luggage. To-date, have never had to "go look" for ammo when I got somewhere.

Beautiful rifles. Did you do the stock work ? If not, do you mind sharing who did ? I like the open grip and the fact that the grain flows thru the wrist... Well done...
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300 wsm. Because it hangs with the 300 win mag with less powder.

My 300 JARRETT,pushes 165gr NBT'S AVERAGE 3508FPS.

Why are all the good-looking rifles Winchesters???

I'v never been a fan of any .300 Magnum. To me, they are a cassic "tweener"...niether fish nor fowl.

300 rum sendero 92 gr h1000 200 gr accubond at 3200 fps.

Back a few years ago (about 30 ) I had a 300 Win Mag, a 300 Weatherby, and a 300 H&H, all at the same time and all M70 Winchesters. The 300 Win and Weatherby were custom and the H&H was a stock pre 64 M70. I was in my 300 magnum phase learning my way around these cartridges, and I took the Weatherby and Winchester hunting quite a bit. I loaded a bunch of bullets but mostly 180's in all three.


The fastest of the three was the Weatherby which averaged about 3150 from a 24" barrel; the 300 H&H did 3090,and the Winchester was sort of stuck somewhere in the middle of those two. The results sort of surprised me because I had read from various sources that the H&H was no better than the 30/06 ballistically, and the 300 Weatherby was the barn burner high velocity king of the 300 magnum crowd.

But I had never seen a 30/06 do any better than 2750-2800 fps with sane loads. The H&H was close to 300 fps better,and fell behind the Weatherby by a whole 60-70 fps (!) Later on I would learn that, if you outfitted the Weatherby with a 26" barrel and the right powder you would get over 3200 fps with a 180 gr bullet.But I chronographed Weatherby factory ammo with the 180 and it did 3190....not bad,and about 100 fps faster than the H&H with good handloads.......again this ain't what I had read.

I also learned that, if I loaded the 300 Win Mag in a H&H length action and OAL to 3.5+", it would rival the Weatherby for velocity...and in a 24" barrel, so seemed more efficient,I settled for 3150 or so with a 180 gr bullet and used that load for a lot of hunting.Powder charges were 8-10 gr less than the Weatherby,depending on the powder.

Had a bunch of other rifles (factory and custom)chambered for all three cartridges and results were always much the same.

I concluded a few things....first, my old mentor, JOC, was right about a lot of stuff but dead wrong about the H&H vs the 30/06...the old Holland round stomps it with good handloads,even if the factory stuff is nothing to write home about....but that can be said of the 30/06,too with some factory ammo.

Second, while it's good with anything the "best shot" for the 300 Weatherby was with a 26" barrel, and a 200 gr bullet at close to 3100 fps. This is where the bigger case showed some superiority over the smaller one's.

I owned a 300 RUM when it came out,and have sat and watched load development in rifles belonging to friends;shot their rifles quite a bit. It's easily the fastest but I could not fall in love with burning 90+ gr of powder and torching it all off in an 8 pound mountain weight rifle.I'll leave that to others.

I hunted with the H&H, Winchester, and Weatherby, killed a bunch of elk and other animals with the Winchester and Weatherby from hard off the muzzle to 400-500 yards.I found all three to have more punch on heavier animals like elk on the far side of a canyon than a 30/06, which is no toy,but isn't a 30 cal magnum either.

I sort of learned that the velocity differences between the first three cartridges were not really the quantum leaps I had been led to expect, but more like baby steps between all three. What I could do with one I could do with the others,at the range and on game.

So these days when someone asks about "which 300 magnum?" I shrug because once you start a 180 gr bullet at around 3100+- fps it doesn't matter;and at least with these three cartridges there's only 100-150 fps that separates them.

I never used the real heavy match bullets in the 300's but maybe the differences will matter more with those bullets.

Would the 308 Norma be considered a short action mag compared to the Weatherby and H&H?

Hard not to like the .300 Weatherby Magnum