.300 Weatherby Factory Ammunition

[oldrgr]

Hello. I assume that Weatherby factory ammo uses premium bullets. Anybody know for sure?

I was at the range yesterday with a friend whom I'll be taking elk hunting this fall. He was shooting both a .270 Winchester and a .300 Weatherby Mark V Vanguard.

I examined the bullets in the Weatherby factory ammo (original ammo not reloads) and they appeared to be Nosler Partitions. They looked identical to the NPs in my .300 RUM.

I explained to my pard about pemium bullets, etc after noticing that his .270 factory loads were standard core lokts. I told him that if he decided to use the .270 on the hunt, he would be much better off using a premium bullet and that he should sight in with whatever he was going to hunt with. I recommended he go with the Weatherby.

Hence back to my question topside about whether or not Weatherby loads its cases with premium bullets. I would think so but wanted to get the straigth word.
Thanks in advance.

[stubblejumper]

Weatherby factory loads use a variety of bullets including hornady interlocks,nosler ballistic tips,nosler partitions and barnes x.I do not consider either hornady interlocks or nosler ballistic tips to be premium bullets.

Stubble got it right, but I bet he was using the cheapest of the cheap, which is Hornady Spire point. Which is not a "premium bullet". Most people I know shooting weatherbys go with those cause they are like 20 dollars cheaper than the Nosler Partitions.

I don't get it. "soft points" are 33dollars a box on cheaper than dirt. Ballistic tips goes up 36 dollars, than Nosler partitions are 46 dollars.

The math don't jive. I can buy partitions for 20 dollar for 50. I am sure thier investment in the hornady spire point is about 3 dollars in volumn. Most the partitions should be more is like 5 dollars or less.

[loner]

i own a wby 300 mag and shoot the wby 150 gr sp not because of price but because of: 1] ballistics and 2] accuracy.i have used rem 150 gr corlokt in my wby 30-06 since 1970.i have found no advantage of using the 'PREMIUM' loads in any of my rifles.the reason i selected the wby load was because it out performed the rem corlokt at 300 yards.it is just a personal choice.i think i paid about $40 for the wby brand but that had nothing to do with the decesion to pick them.i do not consider them 'CHEAP" but the right load for my gun.

[burniegoeasily]

I reaload for my 300 wby, but like loner, I use the cheap rem. corelock with my 30-06. I like to keep my 30-06 sighted with a factory load I can find just about anywhere. Never know when you will be on a hunt and need to get ammo. Never lost a deer yet with my 30-06.

loner, you might be different, but your the exception its seems. You have fun with that 150gr cheap load. I found 5 pieces of it in a cauibou where it fragmentated. No big deal for a caribou, but in my eyes a bullet failure for a more serious critter like elk.

[oldelkhunter]

If the load uses Nosler partitions or XS bullet then yes they use premium bullets. They sure as heck use premium brass.

[loner]

these premium bullet ads are the way"NEW AND EXCITING PRODUCTS ARE SOLD".sure they may have some improvements over some of the existing loads,but that does not mean that all of a sudden the others are no good.i have taken whitetail with 150gr fmj .they do not expand at all.the deer was just as dead since it was hit in the right place.i do not think a well placed bullet will allow game to run very far.JMO.

Sure, Loner, we argue about minicule things on here. I mean if you lined up 100 guys using coreloks, and spizers you use, and shot at a elk, and then took the statistics, of 100 guys shooting barnes, and partitions, doing the same thing, you would probably not see a huge difference in outcomes, I bet 5% max. But on here we are gun nuts. A little more interested in the fine points than the "average sight thier guns in once a year guy". And hobbies should be taken seriously. I am sure you will do just fine with you ammo.

[loner]

you are probably right! no arguing here.i do not shoot my rifles [that i deer hunt with] except during the deer season.however,when i do shoot one of them,i know where it is going to shoot since i hunt a pipeline and my shots are from 50-400 yards.never lost a deer yet due to shooting these cheap bullets.i never have hunted elk or moose or bear so i am not an expert on talking about such.wonder what they used 30-40 years ago out west for elk and such when the 270 was the gun of choice and these new fangled bullets were not around?