I recently acquired a 6.5-300 Weatherby 26” barrel burnt bronze cerakote with factory camo stock. Right out of the box it shot tiny groups with 127 gr LRX and 130 gr Scirocco Wby factory loads. I found a box of each to try and given near identical results, I grabbed 2 more boxes of the LRX. Also later found a box of 70 factory cases and couple of pounds of US869. I’m not so sure it outperforms my 7mm and .300 Weatherby Mags, but it should be more than adequate for elk and mule deer. I hope to find out this season!

PS: Looking at the ballistics tables, down range performance is very close and certainly more velocity than required for expansion of either bullet. I don’t shoot at much of anything past 500 yards anyway.

Last edited by WAM; 01/04/21.

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