My Brother decided to get a Leupold Vari-3Xi 4.5x14 with the BDC dial to mount on his rifle and mounted it with Talley rings and bases he bought through Weatherby. Yesterday I went with him to sight it in and to say he's extremely happy with it is a total understatement. When his girlfriend bought it for him the salesman gave her a box of Hornady 285 grain Match Hollow Points and we used them to break the rifle in. The accuracy with them was around half inch groups and then we finished sighting it in with the bullets he's going to hunt with, which are Hornady's Custom Ammunition with the 250 grain Spire Points. The Spire Point's accuracy was even better, both of us were constantly getting three shot groups that were touching, can't beat that in my book. The one thing that I noticed is the match bullets left a lot more fouling in the barrel opposed to the Spire Points. While we were breaking the rifle in we would clean it after each shot and the patches from the match bullets came out completely black while the patches from the Spire Points were almost clean. To confirm this we cleaned the rifle and fired a shot from one bullet then cleaned it and shot the other bullet and cleaned it. We did this four times and shot each bullet first twice and each time the results were what I had mentioned.
We both shot it with and without the break several times and with the break on the recoil is along the lines of a .270 Winchester in my opinion. Now without the break she definitely gives you a good swift kick. I didn't think it was extremely bad but my Brother he's had enough of shooting it without the break after six shots and decided he wanted to put the break on and leave it on. I agree he made the right choice on that but I have to say I didn't let the opportunity to pass by to bust on him about it. Over all the quality and craftsmanship of his rifle is exactly what I expect from Weatherby, top notch all the way. As for the accuracy it's a tack driver with the Hornady 250 grain Spire Points and to make it even a bit better it's not a Range Certified model. When I end up loading for it I'm going to stick with the Hornady 250 grain Spire Points since the factory version shoots so well.