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What is the MOST FUSSY cartridge...and LEAST?
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<blockquote data-quote="Calvin45" data-source="post: 2966831" data-attributes="member: 109862"><p>I also want to add a "most surprising" category haha. By all accounts the .257 weatherby should be tricky to find a great load for and shouldn't be capable of easy accuracy the way more efficient and modern design cartridges are. It's VERY overbore, so that's a strike against it not being picky - more efficient cartridges are generally less fussy. It has a ton of freebore…another strike. It is belted AND had that weird shoulder geometry that further complicates the headspacing equation….another strike. And for sure, it's not a benchrest cartridge. But I've been so surprised by my experience with it. </p><p></p><p>My rifle is not custom or even high end in any sense, it's a totally unmodified weatherby vanguard s2 stainless synthetic. And she's a keeper. Literally any load I've made so far has entailed seating to the cannelure or groove, or if the bullet doesn't have that just seating to mag length and working up to pressure signs then backing off a little. No messing around with many powders and depths and so on….I ain't got barrel life for that! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤣" title="Rolling on the floor laughing :rofl:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" data-shortname=":rofl:" />. And I bought this rifle USED! Used rifles chambered in weatherbys and rums are always a bit of a gamble haha. But I have yet to feed it anything it won't shoot into about 3/4 of an inch if I do my part, and sometimes a good bit better. </p><p></p><p>This is a sporter weight rifle with a thin barrel that isn't free floating shooting a grossly overbore cartridge that headspace's on the belt not the shoulder (and I do full length resize) and has gobs of freebore and a decent amount of already extant throat erosion. And it's ABSOLUTELY among the least fussy rifles I've ever had the pleasure to load for and shoot. I don't get it…..but I'm keeping it!!! <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😁" title="Beaming face with smiling eyes :grin:" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f601.png" data-shortname=":grin:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Calvin45, post: 2966831, member: 109862"] I also want to add a "most surprising" category haha. By all accounts the .257 weatherby should be tricky to find a great load for and shouldn't be capable of easy accuracy the way more efficient and modern design cartridges are. It's VERY overbore, so that's a strike against it not being picky - more efficient cartridges are generally less fussy. It has a ton of freebore…another strike. It is belted AND had that weird shoulder geometry that further complicates the headspacing equation….another strike. And for sure, it's not a benchrest cartridge. But I've been so surprised by my experience with it. My rifle is not custom or even high end in any sense, it's a totally unmodified weatherby vanguard s2 stainless synthetic. And she's a keeper. Literally any load I've made so far has entailed seating to the cannelure or groove, or if the bullet doesn't have that just seating to mag length and working up to pressure signs then backing off a little. No messing around with many powders and depths and so on….I ain't got barrel life for that! 🤣. And I bought this rifle USED! Used rifles chambered in weatherbys and rums are always a bit of a gamble haha. But I have yet to feed it anything it won't shoot into about 3/4 of an inch if I do my part, and sometimes a good bit better. This is a sporter weight rifle with a thin barrel that isn't free floating shooting a grossly overbore cartridge that headspace's on the belt not the shoulder (and I do full length resize) and has gobs of freebore and a decent amount of already extant throat erosion. And it's ABSOLUTELY among the least fussy rifles I've ever had the pleasure to load for and shoot. I don't get it…..but I'm keeping it!!! 😁 [/QUOTE]
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