I just acquired a 300 Weatherby or more correctly bought a 300 Wby barrel for my 458 Lott Mauser M03. As you may know the M03 is going out of production so the Australian distributors were having a runout sale and the barrel was half price! I've always read that the famous Weatherby double radius shoulders didn't really do anything much, just marketing hype but didn't do anything bad either - so I thought.
I've been reading Pierre van de Walt's "African Dangerous Game cartridges" and he says that you need to anneal Weatherby brass each firing or the brass will be short lived (and they are expensive) and that this is due to the double radius shoulder.
What is the opinion here? Does the double radius cause a weakness in the shoulder/neck area compared to a straight angled shoulder? Or is it just handloaders chasing Weatherby velocities and the shoulder makes no difference?
regards
JohnT
I've loaded a bunch of Weatherby cartridges and based on my experience that sounds like a load of BS.
