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You'll be better off with a setback and custom throat..
Feeding issues are the main problem. With the expense of the box, machining the bottom metal to fit, ending up with wobbly followers, yada yada yada - it's simply not worth it.. It's a solution to a non-problem..
I had one inquiry lately about installing a Wyatts box for a .300RUM to get the bullet long enough to kiss the lands.. Uh uh.. Not a good thing. That round is a VERY high-pressure round and with a bullet that close the pressure spike will be enormous and has the potential to cause a receiver failure.. Too much liability for me to be comfy.. That's why Weatherby rounds have such freebore - to eliminate that pressure spike.. And Wby rounds have a record of very good inherent accuracy..
Maybe I'm just too cautious - but I have seen (and can see nothing but) major problems with this little item... I'll pass, thank you..
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Thanks Redneck,
Appreciate your insight on this issue.
Will take your advice.
Jim
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Thanks Redneck,
Appreciate your insight on this issue.
Will take your advice.
Jim +1 Roy
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Feeding issues are the main problem. With the expense of the box, machining the bottom metal to fit, ending up with wobbly followers, yada yada yada - it's simply not worth it.. It's a solution to a non-problem.. Can't speak for the Winchesters, but standard factory bottom metal works fine with the Wyatt extended boxes for SA Remingtons. John
If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and I will forgive their sin and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
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You'll be better off with a setback and custom throat..
Feeding issues are the main problem. With the expense of the box, machining the bottom metal to fit, ending up with wobbly followers, yada yada yada - it's simply not worth it.. It's a solution to a non-problem..
I had one inquiry lately about installing a Wyatts box for a .300RUM to get the bullet long enough to kiss the lands.. Uh uh.. Not a good thing. That round is a VERY high-pressure round and with a bullet that close the pressure spike will be enormous and has the potential to cause a receiver failure.. Too much liability for me to be comfy.. That's why Weatherby rounds have such freebore - to eliminate that pressure spike.. And Wby rounds have a record of very good inherent accuracy..
Maybe I'm just too cautious - but I have seen (and can see nothing but) major problems with this little item... I'll pass, thank you.. Most handloaders know that kissing the lands bumps up pressures a bit. As such I dont see a problem setting a RUM up this way. Weatherby's have freebore to increase velocity and weatherby factory ammo runs very high prerssures even with freebore. I also respectfully disagree on Weatherby rounds being inherently accurate. They are almost never used in competition and most guys serious about accuracy that build one will do so without a weatherby freebore chamber.
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Having a very good record of inherent accuracy is true, the wby cartridges are inherently accurate big game cartridges. Big difference in benchrest accuracy, although reloading cost and barrel life may play a role in not seeing them in competition more frequently
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BY that yardstick all "hunting cartidges" are inherently accurate.
And do you really think that reloading cost or barrel life play a role? There are plenty of 30 cal magnums used in 1000yard benchrest for instance, but I don't know if I have ever seen a weatherby on a equipment list. Further, everyone I have ever dealt with has been pretty finicky and the accuracy has never been outstanding with any of them. Coincidence? Maybe..
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