.25 wssm
12-06-2006, 02:19 PM
#3
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Jun 2003
Location: Moccasin, Montana
Posts: 1,835
RE: .25 wssm
It's almost the balistic twin to the tried and true 25-06 Rem.I have used the 25-06 for deer for 15 years and it is devastating on white-tail.So I would geuss the 25 wssm will be the same in a short action.
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12-06-2006, 06:22 PM
#5
Fork Horn
Join Date: Feb 2003
Location: Columbia SC USA
Posts: 376
RE: .25 wssm
The 25-06 can be reloaded much hotter and handles 120gr bullets better. The 243wssm is an improvement in speed but the 25wssm is not when compared to the 25-06, especially to the reloader. Ammo is more expensive and harder to find for the 25wssm. The 25wssm has not really caught on and may not since the 25-06 does the same or better. The 25’s are awesome deer calibers though. Now a factory 25wsm would be the ticket.
12-06-2006, 06:37 PM
#6
Join Date: Mar 2005
Location: Colorado
Posts: 4,127
RE: .25 wssm
I thought so as well. But after building one and watching a customer try to develop some loads for it, I'm convinced the .25 WSM is a caliber that maybe needs a powder that is not yet available to get it to run properly. It has a lot of variation inshot-to-shot velocity. Accuracy suffers as well. And the .257 Weatherby, with about the same case capacity, is pretty good in this regard. Not sure what the problem is here, but the .25 WSM appears to be too much of a good thing.
02-19-2023, 11:02 PM
#7
Spike
Join Date: Feb 2023
Posts: 1
I thought so as well. But after building one and watching a customer try to develop some loads for it, I'm convinced the .25 WSM is a caliber that maybe needs a powder that is not yet available to get it to run properly. It has a lot of variation inshot-to-shot velocity. Accuracy suffers as well. And the .257 Weatherby, with about the same case capacity, is pretty good in this regard. Not sure what the problem is here, but the .25 WSM appears to be too much of a good thing.
02-20-2023, 07:48 PM
#8
Nontypical Buck
Join Date: Oct 2009
Location: Kansas
Posts: 3,905
I hate necroposting, but I’m gonna say two things here:
1) This thread was started 17yrs ago about the 25 WSSM, not WSM.
2) The comments that 25 WSM is too powerful for its own good is largely silly. I’ve had both 6.5 and 6mm RSAUM’s, doppelgängers for the WSM case, and naturally, the 6mm version being even more overbore than the 25 cal version, and the 6.5 only slightly less so, as well as just getting into a 6mm PRC wildcat, again, more overbore than 25wsm… no, they’re not friendly on barrels, but that’s seldom the point of magnum cartridges in general, and certainly not high performers like these.
1) This thread was started 17yrs ago about the 25 WSSM, not WSM.
2) The comments that 25 WSM is too powerful for its own good is largely silly. I’ve had both 6.5 and 6mm RSAUM’s, doppelgängers for the WSM case, and naturally, the 6mm version being even more overbore than the 25 cal version, and the 6.5 only slightly less so, as well as just getting into a 6mm PRC wildcat, again, more overbore than 25wsm… no, they’re not friendly on barrels, but that’s seldom the point of magnum cartridges in general, and certainly not high performers like these.
