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Ping pong ball? Hardly. I have used the 100 gr. TSX and RE 22 for 10 plus years from 20 to 600 yards from elk to antelope to Oryx and everything in between and it has not failed a single time on any critter. 3700 fps and super accurate spells very lethal and very effective. 6-8 hunting buddies also have the very same experience. I think the rest of this thread backs that up.........................YMMV.

Ping Pong ball, seriously? NOTHING kills like that 100gr TTSX @3700. NOTHING>

I've got to question the ping pong ball comment also especially when you place a Nosler BT above a TTSX. I own 4 Weatherby's in cals 240, 257, 6.5-300 & 300. I've yet to see a BT hold up as well as a TTSX in the velocity ranges produced.in those calibers.

I concur!

Monos really come to life in hyper-velocity rounds.

The 120 TTSX and E-Tips are stellar in my 26 Nosler, running at near 3,500 fps. About the most accurate bullets in that round with impressive terminal performance on game. Messes’em up pretty bad, DRT the norm.

I would think100 TTSX in the .257 Wby would be similar, long way ahead of a ping pong ball.

DF

Look at Reloader 25 and 33 these out perform R26 and I am a fan of R26. I would also consider VV N565 and N570. The old stanbye's produce plenty of velocity so I would look towards more temperature stability with the newer powders. The old H870 type powders also did well, H869 and some surplus powders in this burn rate range are available.

872 is about the same as 869 and much cheaper. Google Jeff Bartlett, $50 for 8#’s.

Vv-570 is a very coarse stick powder that won’t meter. I took the drop tube out of my Uniflow, dropped charges in a scale pan and weighed each one. It has good QL data for a number of large rounds.

DF

Jorge,
You know, some others know, and some will never know..
The .257 always states its case in the field. I have experience with 4 over as many decades and don't worry too much any more about opinions.
John

How do you get a ping pong ball in that little bitty hole??

I'm a fan of a max load of 7828SSC and the 100 grain Barnes. It is accurate and repeatable.

I’ve ran the 2 fiddy 7 more than most, 100 factory Hornadys are nasty...... ALOT of meat has been made with said bullet....

25 years as a matter of fact, exclusively..

They don't bounce off thats for sure

i just purchased a 1,000 131 grain Black Jack bullets ,my 257 Weatherby Mag. has a 27 inch - 10 twist barrel on my #1 not sure if these bullets are going to fly well but if ? these 131 gr, bullets do fly well at 3300 + fps would be a heck of a long range bullet. the reason a purchased these 131 gr. bullets is for my 25 Creedmoor i am building with a 7 1/2 twist and probably shoot around 2800 + fps ? will find out in the next month or so about accuracy and velocity of my 257 W. Mag. with 131 gr. bullets

Regarding the comment: "Nothing kills like the 100gr TTSX @3700." The 115 Berger @ 3600-3675 is no slouch either. To date, five of us have taken a few animals using this bullet with the 257 Roy. Many were DRTs.

25 coues wt
6 elk
4 mule deer
2 antelope
and a few javelina

I used 7828 and it gets my 117 SST screaming toward the target.

Just my opinion.....the 100 grain TTSX is a very fine bullet for the .257 Weatherby....and if I still had my .257 "bee" I'd be using IMR 7828.....with a lot of experimentation, you might be able to beat that by a hundred FPS but if you do you'll never be able to see the difference in the field. I'm not aware of any powders that perform so much better that one will actually be able to see a real difference.

A lot of what we (so called) hunters do is actually for our egos and not for venison on the table.

This - 7828 and 120 grain partitions

Nice wood.

DF