My cousin's son (also my cousin I guess :lol: ) and me wanted to get his Dad a nice little deer rifle that was fairly light and easy shooting. We texted back and forth a bunch and finally settled on getting him a Weatherby in a 240 Wby Mag. So we ended up going with their Wilderness version. It advertised it was a pretty light rifle, so that's what we did.
Ended up with a Swaro 2.5x10 in Leupold Backcountry rings it finished at 7lb's 7 ounces.
I got some Norma 240 cases, and decided to try RL23 with the little guy. Most of the data that looked good, used RL22 to good results so I figured 23 would be just about as good and it's been very good to me lately, so I cracked the jug, loaded up a few rounds and went to work.
I had 3.345 to the lands in this rifle and that is where I started with the Hornady 105 grain HPBT. Speeds looked pretty good across the board so I decided to give 53 grains a go. First three shot group was two touching and one out about 1/2-3/4".
I shortened them .005 and shot about the same group. I went another .005 shorter and shot this.
I figured I'd stop right there..
Hopefully I will hand the rifle over to my cousin's son this weekend and he can present it to his pops. The opener is a few weeks away still, so they can get to the range and do their own zeroing but I think it'll make a sweet little buck getter.
Ended up with a Swaro 2.5x10 in Leupold Backcountry rings it finished at 7lb's 7 ounces.
I got some Norma 240 cases, and decided to try RL23 with the little guy. Most of the data that looked good, used RL22 to good results so I figured 23 would be just about as good and it's been very good to me lately, so I cracked the jug, loaded up a few rounds and went to work.
I had 3.345 to the lands in this rifle and that is where I started with the Hornady 105 grain HPBT. Speeds looked pretty good across the board so I decided to give 53 grains a go. First three shot group was two touching and one out about 1/2-3/4".
I shortened them .005 and shot about the same group. I went another .005 shorter and shot this.
I figured I'd stop right there..
Hopefully I will hand the rifle over to my cousin's son this weekend and he can present it to his pops. The opener is a few weeks away still, so they can get to the range and do their own zeroing but I think it'll make a sweet little buck getter.
