I’ve been rifle hunting since I was 10 years old; I started off with a 30-30 Winchester and moved up to the Remington 30.06, taking big bucks and Elk in the process.
20 years later I switched over to Muzzleloaders, and I love the !!!! out of that!
While I hunt, in Western Washington State with black powder, I am planning on doing some Antelope, Mule deer and Whitetail hunting in the Eastern part of the state as well as other game in the SW States.
I have been looking at purchasing the .257 Weatherby to do my “extracurricular” hunting with.
I know that the .257 was Roy Weatherby’s personal favorite caliber, in fact, He used a 100gr Partition to kill everything in North America, and almost everything in Africa, including a Cape Buffalo! (No easy task, although he did recommend that no one else try it).
I’m more interested in the “surgical” shot placement on my hunts, rather than the brute force knockdown powers of the larger calibers.
I’ve seen Weatherby’s video of them dropping Elk at 800 yards with the .338-378, seriously impressive, but not for me.
I’m looking at the .257 Vanguard Stainless/Synthetic with fluted barrel.
So what are your guys’ opinions? Good caliber? Not enough?

The 25-06, 25WSM or 257 Weatherby would all be fine for deer size game. I have owned the Weatherby and 25-06. I prefer the 25-06 as it drives the 25 caliber bullets to their useful limits cheaper and with less barrel wear.

.257 is an excellent caliber choice IMHO for deer and varmits. The 257 wby is an awesome round andvery flat butcomes with a price ofshorter barrel life. It is a reloader cartridge IMHO, so if you buy off the shelf ammobetter to stick with 2506 rem.

I plan on building a .257 chambering myself butright now am leaning towards 2506AI instead of the 257 wby on the account of availability of brass and longer barrel life.

One of my good buddies has taken both elk and moose with .257 (2506rem and ,257 wby), I don't consider it the best choice. Mine will be strictly a deer sized game and paper puncher rig.

You can't go wrong with a .257 Wby. Mag. Good luck.

weatherby its a good one

I dont have to much expierence with weatherby mags but I havent heard any good things about them, paper thin barrels, accuracy not on par, expensive shells, exagerated ballistics.
I wouldnt reccomend it. If you want a .25 go with the 25-06.

weatherby has been known for years as being a high quality excellent shooting rifle. where are you getting your information from?

Other then the expensive shells point, I couldnt disagree more with that statement. Paper thin barrels??? The guns come with gauranteed accuracy and even give you the target they shot the gun at. Other then then the lower price Vanguards the Weatherby are about as good as it gets.

Like I said I have no exp. with them, all mine is limited to campfire talk.
My cousins stock did break at the trigger grip right in half, while on an out of state hunt, fluke ? probably, but he wasnt happy with it from day one.
The barrels are very thin just by looking at them. I also heard the bore had more play than usuall, giving it those awsome ballistics. True ?
I dont know.

Must have been a lot of drinking around that campfire.