Ringman: "With one of these one is not "still require a few feet of holdover for a 400 yard shot."

Although I'm not familiar with 7-300 Weatherby ballistics, with a standard 200 yard zero, the 7mm STW using Winchester 160 grain FailSafe has 21" of bullet drop at 400 yards, and 43" at 500 yards. The 7mm Weatherby, even using a 4" high at 100 yard zero, still has 9" of drop at 400 yards. Although not technically a "few feet" of drop at 400 yards, even the 7 mm STW is not always a "hold dead on out to 400 yards" rifle, depending on the ammo. But I will grant you this, yes, it is, along with a few of the Weatherby variants, one flat shooting SOB! :-)

Edited by - Mark in NE on 02/04/2002 06:15:57