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Dayum...that was quick! Where'd you find it? How about a pic!

Good call.

Coues, damn that is one ugly-ass monkey.....congrats.

Let me know if you want to sell that one.

Your .257 WBY is happy in it's new home but could use a companion.

Haven't had a .270 Wby but did have a .257 for a while. Amazing cartridge. Accurate and stretched string flat. Absolutely electrocutes critters. Fairly easy to toast a barrel though, if you're not careful...

John

Actually, a male baboon skull was a trophy I really wanted but only heard them in the bush and saw only one perched on a fence post like a bird--couldn't have been very comfortable and wished I'd have tried to get a photo.

George I hear they are pretty abundant....like varmints

Yea, the very nice guy who took my wife and I on a two-day tour of Etosha National Park was also a rancher with a remote and large ranch. He said they are incredibly destructive and almost guileful and purposeful about it. On asking him what he meant by guileful, he commented they'll literally wreck something and then seemingly get in line and then _ _ _ _ on it.

And yet he said he had trouble shooting them, replacing, fixing fences and electrical work all of which, he said, is almost a full time job.

Got to love those canines in a big male, the reason I always thought a skull would be interesting trophy.

Apologies for the distraction here. Never have had a 257 B but really liked the 270.

Fotis,
If you were the type to worry about barrel life, and I don't believe you are, the larger bore with the same case is the better option, but then too, would be the 7mm Weatherby.

But, I killed several hundred animals with the .257 and loaded for 4 or 5 over about 35 years, also having the opportunity to compare it to cartridges either side of it.

For the medium sized animals I shot, the .257 killed faster, at further ranges more consistently than the .243 on the lower side and the .270 and 7mm Remington on the higher end.

Now.....the .270 Weatherby, I found killed a tad better only after a lot of animals were dropped and the averages considered. After making the previous statements about the 7mm Remington, I concluded that the reason for the more dynamic kills stemmed from the bullet choices I made considering that the .270 caliber bullets of cup and core design I used in the 80's were designed for the standard .270 Winchester.

The end result was that because most .270 bullets were/are designed for deer hunters, they opened a little more violently at the faster velocity and demonstrated what the .270 does at 100 yards at 2 or 3 times that distance.

Because this is not the 80's, my experience is out of date as the premium bullets of today change everything. My opinion now is that very few hunters would notice any difference between all the cartridges commented above if like premium bullets were handloaded.

The short answer is, if you haven't owned a .257, you "need" one. If you have travelled that road, get the .270 version.

Feel better now?

PS. Roy Snr liked the 87gn Hornady in the .257 and I used it a lot and found it the fastest of the fast killers for lung shot deer sized game.

Your mileage won't vary at all.
John

25-06. If you want a magnum...AI it.

Buds gun shop..... the only one I could find without MSRP on it!

Quote: Both,why settle for one?

Exactly, I have a NULA in .257 B and a LW 700 I built in .270B

Have taken 1 cow elk and some deer with the .257...and it worked great. I will be using it this year on deer and antelope.

Taken a bunch of stuff with the .270B from moose on down. All with 130 gr bullets. A hammer and prolly my favorite rifle, if there is such a thing.


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