ORIGINAL: oldelkhunter
If you are going to go to the trouble of working up the brass, why not make a 25 WSSM? It would be small light, pack the punch of the 25-06. I think the 25 WSSM is probably the best WSSM at least from what I have read (I haven't shot one). 25-06 velocity and weights in an action shorter than a short action (.308, etc.). Seems like a great deer round. I'm too cheap to buy one when a box of bullets is so expensive, but if you handload anyway and you have to work up brass for the 257 Weatherby anyway, why not just go 25 WSSM?
No I have looked at 25wssm and decided against it would rather have a 25-06..the 25wsm is the same case length as 270 and 300wsm. It gives up maybe 100 fps to the 257 wthby if that in a 24" barrel not 26".
No, the 25 WSSM is the same length as the 223 WSSM and the 243 WSSM. It is super short mag case, not the short mag case. This makes it shorter even than the 270 WSM or the 300 WSM. It is two sizes smaller than 25-06 case.