Quote from: JWDynamics on January 07, 2025, 04:16:21 PM

80k PSI in a alloy case (not brass) and touted with the heavy for caliber bullets long-range tactical applications... meh. I bet reloading for this will not be cheap. The Q&A on their website says to stayed tuned for future details on reloading tooling, data and instructions.

I think I'll stick with my trusty 7mm lineup of:
7x57, 280 Rem, 7mm Rem Mag, 7mm Wby Mag, & 28 Nosler

I think you have .284 covered

LOL you may be right!

Sadly, I forgot to add my 7x57 Ackley Improved to that list. Shot a feral hog with it a couple of months ago. It's probably my favorite all-time Ackley cartridge.

I like 7mm stuff in general, but gonna pass on this new space age stuff.

I've been enjoying some Buffalo Trace recently since our local Specs has had a bunch in stock. Makers Mark is my usual go-to but the Buffalo is good stuff too!

When I'm not in the mood for bourbon, I usually shift to Bushmills or a single malt scotch. Too bad everything is so $$$ these days.

What has everyone found from their experience building loads for weatherby cartridges? Tip/suggestions? How do you go about building your loads? Just seems my weatherby chambering are much more picky on load work ups than what I’ve read about others.

For me, it depends on the cartridge. For instance, my 6.5-300 Weatherby Mag is very picky... so much so that I had to basically duplicate factory load data and pick the more accurate of the 2 or 3. Most of my other Weatherby cartridges are less picky. I don't have any experience with the RPM series of cartridges.

Most Weatherby factory rifles have freebore so you can seat the bullets out to just inside the mag well length, which is normally my approach. Be cautious when testing reduced loads because you can get pressure spikes and undesired behavior. If you stick to the main reloading manuals, you'll be fine.

Other than the freebore, I don't find much difference in my approach for most of my Weatherby cartridges compared to other similar sized magnum cartridges.

Here in Texas for us, it's black-eyed peas in a small bowl with some apple-cider vinegar... don't knock it till you've tried it!

Also, make sure you don't do laundry on New Years Day. They say it's bad luck for the year!

That is really cool! Thanks for sharing!

We send out snail mail personalized x-mas cards to close friends and family, but I have young kids so that's the main motivating component for now. There will probably be a day when we dial it back to a minimum and maybe eventually nothing.

Hahahaha! That's a good one.

I just put this ornament on my tree...

I agree with pretty much everything said already in this thread. I too have grumbled about this for years. To me, it's similar to finding new rifles with wood stocks in stores. The tactical uber-lightweight 1000 yard plastic sniper "hunting" rifle is what they're making most of the scopes for today. Barf