Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunting Rifles 300WSM---Is it a dead duck?

I have had one since it was introduced. It shoots well and It hits hard.

I know a couple of people who have 300wsm rifles. Because the guy at bass pro recommended it.

Right there is reason enough to own one . . . . . .

I have had several 300 wizzums built and it's become one of my favorite calibers. I have sold all my 300 win mags, but if I lived somewhere I couldn't get ammo, maybe I would still have one. They're all fine calibers.

Most everyone I know buys ammo by the case online, anyway, or loads it at home, but I've never had a hard time finding 300 wsm ammo locally when there wasn't a shortage.

If by “dead” one means a lack of brass and factory loads, then all the wsm’s are dead. Covid shutdowns was the nail in the coffin. The vast majority of hunters and shooters do not reload, or so says the online stuff I read. Who wants a wsm when you can’t find a rifle so chambered and dam sure can’t find ammo. Then consider what is available now. My lone Walmart has stacks of 270 win, 308, 30-06 ammo and a local sporting goods store has a few rifles in the same chamberings. If one reloads ammo is a non issue, but most don’t. I had a 300 wsm as a dedicated elk rifle. It killed 2 or 3 elk just fine, but no better than the 30-06 it replaced, so I sold it. Seems to me it all comes down to what the ammo manufacturers are producing. From where I sit, and what’s available in my area, the wsm’s are dead. Ymmv

One gets a pre-64 M70?? The other gets a 300WSM??

The only way to be more obvious about your disdain for this nephew, would be to get him a Remington 710 or 770.

You gonna put a Barska scope on that 300WSM, too??

A friend of mine has one in a Kimber Montana. He wont shoot it, says it recoils too much.

Wow! He must really be recoil sensitive! I had a couple of Montana's chambered in .300 WSM and i thought they were pretty mild in the recoil department, maybe 30-06ish level of recoil.....Hb

This has been my experience also. The Montana stock does seems to mitigate recoil fairly well. The extra weight of the 8400 also helps.

I do have an Remington 710 actually. LOL! It's true one gets an nice pre-64 30-06 but the other will get the 300WSM and it's an Nosler 48.

Myself I use 308win and 338's but lately have gotten into 270win and 30-06 and I that suits me but I'll be loading ammo for the kids. I have plenty of components but it's the brass that scares me most fornthe WSM line.

Don't have an Barska optic but maybe I'll look into one and learn more about them.

I don’t think mine is bad at all, it’s a 700.

True, but it takes up magazine space and is otherwise useless unless the cartridge lacks shoulders, thinking 300 H&H

Say what you want and think as you like but the 300 win mag will still be used when the 300 prc is forgotten. Ammo availibility and a huge pile of new and used 300 win mag guns ready to go. Mb

Yep! Nothing but hype and $$$$$

Well, ok. A Nosler 48 is nothing to sneeze at!!!

This is probably true.

There is probably some correlation of the perceived “decline” in the 300WSM and the popularity of the 6.5 manbun… I haven’t owned either but a 300 magnum of any variation is hardly required for 95% deer hunters.

I prefer to keep getting it done with with a .470 bolt face.

About as dead as the 30 30 .

It's about the only centerfire I grab anymore.

I've thought about building another one because I've got a lifetime of ammo.