In 1994, in preparation for my first trip west hunting elk, I bought a mark V weatherby in .300 WBY. A good friend of mine had a sporting goods store at the time and he " bought" a Remington 700 in .300 WBY at the same time. He didnt reload so I brought his remington home with me to work up a load for it while I was doing the same for my weatherby. Over the course of an entire summer I tried just about every load/powder/bullet combination knopwn to man trying to find something that weatherby would shoot. IT WAS HOPELESS. On the other hand, I could take ANY of those same loads and shoot them thru the remington and it would be GREAT. I believe you could have put powder from a firecracker and a rock for a bullet in the remington and it would have shot an inch or less! I NEVER tried a bad load in that gun! The weatherby however, was JUNK. I called weatherby and they told me to send it to their authorized repair center in my area, which I did. I got it back about a month before my trip and started the whole process again. It was no better. Groups averaged over 2 inches. I traded it to my sporting goods friend for a test model of the gun now known as an LSS in .300 win. mag. I still have the Remington and dont see another weatherby ever calling my house home!