[runfiverun]

i hunt with 3 different rifles as my main outfits.
one is the 7x57 ICL round, it runs right up there with the 280 Ackley if i choose to do so... i don't i hover around 2900 fps with a 140gr. bullet.

second is my 25-06, but it's starting to get a bit too heavy to haul all over the mountains here... same reason i quit using the Ruger 25-06 i still have ironically.
it hangs out right at 3,000 fps with a hundred grain bullet.

the third one is my Bergara 30-06.
it runs a 152gr. bullet just a click over 2700 fps.

i wouldn't hesitate to take a 300 yd. shot with any of them if i got a stick or tree to help steady me.

anyway.
i say all that because the more i shoot them, the more i start appreciating the 270 round for what it is.
it's a little more diameter than the 25,,, a little less recoil than the 30, just about the same speed as the 25.
it's close to the 7mm in diameter, the recoil falls right in there with all 3....

 

[shop tom]

Bet ya won't hear much from him again.

Yep. Looks like a post and run.

 

[Ranger4]

i hunt with 3 different rifles as my main outfits.
one is the 7x57 ICL round, it runs right up there with the 280 Ackley if i choose to do so... i don't i hover around 2900 fps with a 140gr. bullet.

second is my 25-06, but it's starting to get a bit too heavy to haul all over the mountains here... same reason i quit using the Ruger 25-06 i still have ironically.
it hangs out right at 3,000 fps with a hundred grain bullet.

the third one is my Bergara 30-06.
it runs a 152gr. bullet just a click over 2700 fps.

i wouldn't hesitate to take a 300 yd. shot with any of them if i got a stick or tree to help steady me.

anyway.
i say all that because the more i shoot them, the more i start appreciating the 270 round for what it is.
it's a little more diameter than the 25,,, a little less recoil than the 30, just about the same speed as the 25.
it's close to the 7mm in diameter, the recoil falls right in there with all 3....

My 257 Weatherby Vanguard is one of the cheaper guns I own, it was $450 in 2010. I have a Mark V Deluxe from the custom shop. It occasionally goes for elk but health has shut that down. A 30-06 model 70 can kill anything and has to 563 yards, but my 243 and 308 have both taken fine animals beyond 300 which is about my limit now. Last 3 years, 70, 328 and 282 yards.

The 257 Weatherby from a tree branch is a chip shot to 350 yards, 100 grain bullet at 3,453 fps. But you can load them hotter if you want. With varmint rounds you can get 3,800 fps, if you want.

Weatherby ammo is not cheap, mine is. The 257 Weatherby brass is nothing more that one stroke of the sizing die and 7.mm mag case. When formed it is 1/64 inch shorter than SAAMI says. Who cares? It shoots less than 1/2 inch groups for an old man who can barely walk.

Like a 25-06 magnum or improved, the added 250-300 fps makes it very flat. And recoil is about the same as any 270 or 30-06.

I highly recommend the 257 Weatherby to anyone who hunts deer anywhere, but you gotta reload to appreciate it. I have killed about a dozen big deer with it. All of the whitetails dressed in the 165-183 range field dressed. Not one required a second shot. My buddy hunts with an identical gun. Same story, one big deer per dozen years. One shot per year. Never a follow up shot. Might just be the best deer round on the planet?

 

[quavodus]

My 257 Weatherby Vanguard is one of the cheaper guns I own, it was $450 in 2010. I have a Mark V Deluxe from the custom shop. It occasionally goes for elk but health has shut that down. A 30-06 model 70 can kill anything and has to 563 yards, but my 243 and 308 have both taken fine animals beyond 300 which is about my limit now. Last 3 years, 70, 328 and 282 yards.

The 257 Weatherby from a tree branch is a chip shot to 350 yards, 100 grain bullet at 3,453 fps. But you can load them hotter if you want. With varmint rounds you can get 3,800 fps, if you want.

Weatherby ammo is not cheap, mine is. The 257 Weatherby brass is nothing more that one stroke of the sizing die and 7.mm mag case. When formed it is 1/64 inch shorter than SAAMI says. Who cares? It shoots less than 1/2 inch groups for an old man who can barely walk.

Like a 25-06 magnum or improved, the added 250-300 fps makes it very flat. And recoil is about the same as any 270 or 30-06.

I highly recommend the 257 Weatherby to anyone who hunts deer anywhere, but you gotta reload to appreciate it. I have killed about a dozen big deer with it. All of the whitetails dressed in the 165-183 range field dressed. Not one required a second shot. My buddy hunts with an identical gun. Same story, one big deer per dozen years. One shot per year. Never a follow up shot. Might just be the best deer round on the planet?

I have a friend that had a Vanguard in .257 Mag. and absolutely loved it but, not the ammo prices. I told him if he would buy the dies and everything, I would load them for free. He never did and finally sold the rifle. Oh well, would have been a fun project.

 

[runfiverun]

the 257 W-By is a top performer for sure.
one of the best in the weatherby lineup AFAIC, heck i already have the bullet combo i'd use picked out.

i'd have one if i could get one in a rifle i was comfortable with, heck i'd have another 25-06 if Bergara would make it on their B-14 chassis.
probably why i've sorta been considering a Bergara in 270.
[don't know why, i ain't got room for another rifle, or seen a deer worth shooting for 4-5 years now]

 

[jwrauch]

I think I'll still stick with my old 6.5mm Swede !!!

 

[blaster]

I think I'll still stick with my old 6.5mm Swede !!!

don't you know that over the last 50 years animals have evolved to be tougher and stronger. those puny old cartridges just bounce off them. heck, my .30/06 is barely able to knock down a squirrel anymore! thats why we need all these new super magnums today.

 

[blue fox]

don't you know that over the last 50 years animals have evolved to be tougher and stronger. those puny old cartridges just bounce off them. heck, my .30/06 is barely able to knock down a squirrel anymore! thats why we need all these new super magnums today.

Yeah, as tough as those animals are today I think I may have to step up to a 155.

 

[Ranger4]

don't you know that over the last 50 years animals have evolved to be tougher and stronger. those puny old cartridges just bounce off them. heck, my .30/06 is barely able to knock down a squirrel anymore! thats why we need all these new super magnums today.

I have to wonder if cheap range finders have played a role in both flatter shooting calibers and more powerful scopes. I always hunted with a 3 x9x40, then moved to a 4 x12x44, and now use a 4x16x50.

My eyes are much older and cranking that scope up gives me a clear picture that I never had before. But now I have the range finder and when stand hunting I measure all the landmarks in advance. I know when that deer is within my 350 yards dead hold with the 257 and I know how high to hold on that animal at 400 or so.

With the 308 or 30-06 for example you are holding in the air above the animal at say 400+ yards. With the more flat shooting gee whiz rounds you can still hold on hair at much greater distance.

So now that we really know the distance, those wild shots are more doable. And the long Range shooting crowd just spins the dials on the scope, hoping they called both the distance and the wind correct. Sometimes it works. I think rangefinders and more power in the scope may be driving the flatter rounds, although that has always been a worthy quest.

 

[jayers0142]

I have a 6.8 western and I love it I bought it when I moved to Wyoming and was looking for a 3-500 yard rifle if I’d had a 270 or a wsm or even a 30-06 probably would not of went looking for one but I have no regrets for buying it and I like that it can shoot any round the 270 can and some bigger bruisers if I’m going after elk or moose took an antelope at 450yards and an elk at 250 this past year and it preformed extremely well

 

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