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Sweet BEAR !!!

I do not own a Weatherby but have the WM version. For a 300 Weatherby, 180-200gr Accubond or TTSX and you are set!!! For the 300Wby, 200gr bullets gets my pick.

I love 180gr AB's in my 300WM, and would consider it a great round for all NA game. Shot placement!!

24 Years ago (1989) my father took a Weatherby Mark V chambered in .300 Weatherby to the Yukon. He was shooting 180 Grain Nosler Partitions. He killed a Moose, Caribou and Grizzly (Inland) on that trip. It worked back then. Still works today also.

.300 Weatherby, 200 gr. Nosler Partition, Admiralty Island, Alaska.

.300's are great, and the Wea. one of the best..

I had to turn so fast with a bag of nuts, So what and the where now?

You sure can't tell any difference between a 300 Weatherby and a 338 Win Mag by watching them both kill animals.

I'm a big fan of the 300 WBY and wouldn't hesitate to take it on a brown bear hunt if that's what I had however, I am NOT a big fan of muzzle brakes and discourage any hunters I guide from bringing one to camp. I have used them for specialized purposes but NOT for a stand up hunting rifle.

They should only be used on hunts where everyone has plenty of time to put earplugs in and get back. I would NEVER let a kid shoot one- they are going to have too much to worry about to remember to stick ear plugs in-besides, they need to be able to hear the coach. My 2 cents.

dennis I agree....my own view is, if I need a MB,I need a smaller rifle.

The whole notion of a 300 Weatherby or 338,with or without a a brake,for a teen does not strike me as a particularly good idea.They are both cartridges for hardened,experienced riflemen,and not for kids going through the learning process.

.300 - by should be a little more of a good thing to the .300 Win. Mag. that is a bit more of a good thing to the -o6 that is a bit more of the same thing to the -08, which is what I would have my son shooting.

By the time he may have to face brownie, he will be man enough to decide on his rifle and save me the anguish.

cmg, you have to learn to walk, before you can run.

Me - I am still belly skootn...

I fully agree.

I love my .300 WBY's but they aren't for everyone. Most folks aren't going to like the noise and shooting a 200 grain partition is probably going to create a kid that flinches, even with a muzzle brake.

Heck, most grown men are flinchy shooting the .300's with anything over 180 grains.

And there isn't an animal in NA I would be afraid of shooting with a .300 WBY. But if I was committed to that attitude, then why would I need a .338 or .375.

I own a 300 Weatherby, never hunted Brown Bear with it, flattens elk pretty good. The 375 H&H 300 grain Nosler has 3797 ft./lbs. at 100 yards, the 270 grain bullet has 3505 ft./lbs. at 100 yards and a 300 Weatherby 200 grain Nosler has 3631 ft./lbs. at the same distance.