257 Weatherby Bullets

[Bones72]

Been using 115 Combined Technology Nosler because I had a bunch. Wanting to change to a tougher bullet. Experiences?  Deer, antelope will be the quarry. Or, since it's a great load, stick with that bullet?  It's chronographed at 3200 fps.

[Dino82520]

Here are a couple loads out of my .257 Vanguard.  I since traded that Vanguard off for a MK V in .257.  Should have kept the Vanguard.

[Blackbear3]

I shoot 100 TTSX's out of my S1 and 110 Accubonds out of my S2 Accuguard. If you want to see if your rifle likes a tougher bullet, give the Barnes a try. My 25-06 Loves A-frames, have you had a problem with the 115s or are you just guessing? Sounds like a fun project and you can always go back to your original load.

[terminator]

I have had very good accuracy and results on animals with the 100 grain Barnes.

[Chris338378]

For what you mentioned you're going to be using them on I wouldn't worry about going with a tougher bullet as deer and antelope aren't tough to kill and certainly don't require solids to kill them.  As long as you place your shots correctly the Ballistic Tips will do the job well.  If you still want a tougher bullet try using an Accubond in the same weight in place of the Ballistic Tip, you might get lucky with both bullets having the same point of impact.  I've had that happen a few times in the past.

[Bones72]

I shoot 100 TTSX's out of my S1 and 110 Accubonds out of my S2 Accuguard. If you want to see if your rifle likes a tougher bullet, give the Barnes a try. My 25-06 Loves A-frames, have you had a problem with the 115s or are you just guessing? Sounds like a fun project and you can always go back to your original load.

No problems. Just enjoy working up different loads and hunting with them.

[.257]

I use the 100 TTSX but with the .257 you have several options

[Chris338378]

I shoot 100 TTSX's out of my S1 and 110 Accubonds out of my S2 Accuguard. If you want to see if your rifle likes a tougher bullet, give the Barnes a try. My 25-06 Loves A-frames, have you had a problem with the 115s or are you just guessing? Sounds like a fun project and you can always go back to your original load.

No problems. Just enjoy working up different loads and hunting with them.

There's nothing wrong with that and lots of fun.  If you're looking for a "tougher" bullet I'd give the Nosler Partitions a try.  Other bullets I'd recommend is the Nosler AccuBonds, or even the Nosler E-Tips.  From what I've read and been told by a few people Barnes bullets can be real finicky and finding a load can be a test of your patients.  I don't know how true that is because I've never loaded any of them but I've heard that a few times from different people over the years. 

[terminator]

I have never had any problems finding good loads with the Barnes. I think some may try to use too long of a COAL for them and that might be why they have problems.I have found that the load data from their website is usually very good with just some powder tweaking.https://www.barnesbullets.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/257WeatherbyMagnum.pdf

[HighDesertHunter]

I shoot 100 TTSX's out of my S1 and 110 Accubonds out of my S2 Accuguard. If you want to see if your rifle likes a tougher bullet, give the Barnes a try. My 25-06 Loves A-frames, have you had a problem with the 115s or are you just guessing? Sounds like a fun project and you can always go back to your original load.

No problems. Just enjoy working up different loads and hunting with them.

There's nothing wrong with that and lots of fun.  If you're looking for a "tougher" bullet I'd give the Nosler Partitions a try.  Other bullets I'd recommend is the Nosler AccuBonds, or even the Nosler E-Tips.  From what I've read and been told by a few people Barnes bullets can be real finicky and finding a load can be a test of your patients.  I don't know how true that is because I've never loaded any of them but I've heard that a few times from different people over the years.

I think you're right about the Barnes bullets, I've had to work harder to get them right than others but I think it's worth it. The Accubonds and Accubond Long Range (my preferred) seem to work well with Nosler book load data.

[Bones72]

Not just a load test, but since I live in Kansas and can get multiple doe tags, it's partly to satisfy my curiosity about expansion, penetration, and venison recipes

[224KING]

Hunted a place years ago where we had a quota to fill on doe.I used the Hornady 75 grain hollow points and mainly head shot them.Shots were out to 400 and sometimes they would raise up from eating the wheat and mess up your head shot up.The 257 is an amazing killer no matter the bullet used.If you are just hunting whitetail and they aren't huge bucks.Anything out of the 257 Weatherby works.

[Chris338378]

Not just a load test, but since I live in Kansas and can get multiple doe tags, it's partly to satisfy my curiosity about expansion, penetration, and venison recipes

I like your line of thinking.   

[.257]

The only time l have had issues with Barnes, was when l had a load with them and  regular gliding metal jacket bullets. The two don't mix well. A through cleaning and the problem was gone
The two rifles that l use Barnes in now l shoot nothing else in them and they are very accurate
For me the one time l tried Berger bullets for a target load and the new ELD-X bullets are very touchy to get to shoot in my rifles

[Bailey-100]

I tried quite a few different bullets in my Mark V. I love Nosler bullets but wasn't able to dial them in. Hornady SST were much worse for me giving 2 inch groups. Tried the Hornady ELD but groups were still around and inch and a half.
Was starting to have doubts until I loaded the Barnes 100 TTSX.
Showed promise right away and with a little tweaking was able to get them well under 1/2 MOA.
71 Grains of RL22, 3.175 Col gave me just under 3600fps from the Weathermark.
I'm sure others would be able to get the other bullets to group but the TTSX is a great bullet and once I found that load I knew I had my hunting rounds.