reloading 300 weatherby

[Dan in the Delta]

When I hunted whitetail with a .300 Wby down here in Mississippi I experimented with various bullet/powder combinations and finally settled on the 168 gr. Barnes TSX and RL22 as my favorite combo. I don't recall how much powder I used, but I do recall that I was using Norma brass and Fed215m primers. Accuracy was excellent and velocity was in the 3300 fps range. I settled on the TSX after getting less than adequate performance from other bullets, especially at close range.

These days I prefer to hunt deer with a 7mm-08 or .30-06. Just more pleasant to shoot. The old .300 Wby (a Sako 75) was rebarreled and is now a .300 Win. Mag.