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On average, Weatherby factory ammo is loaded to higher chamber pressures than Remington or Winchester magnum rounds. The Remington round can be handloaded to equal pressures, and as a consequence, surpass the .300 Weatherby in power. The .300 Weatherby is commonly used by big-game hunters all over the world. [4]
The .300 Win Mag remains the most popular .30 caliber magnum with American hunters, despite not being as fast as more powerful .300 Magnums such as the .300 Weatherby Magnum and .30-378 Weatherby Magnum as well as the newer .300 Remington Ultra Magnum, .300 Norma Magnum, .30 Nosler, and .300 PRC, though all of these must be chambered in a long ...
Weatherby, Inc. is an American gun manufacturer founded in 1945 by Roy Weatherby.The company is best known for its high-powered magnum cartridges, such as the .257 Weatherby Magnum, .270 Weatherby Magnum, .300 Weatherby Magnum, .340 Weatherby Magnum and the .460 Weatherby Magnum.
7mm Weatherby Magnum.30-378 Weatherby Magnum.224 Weatherby Magnum.240 Weatherby Magnum.257 Weatherby Magnum.270 Weatherby Magnum.300 Weatherby Magnum; 6.5-300 Weatherby Magnum.338-378 Weatherby Magnum.340 Weatherby Magnum.375 Weatherby Magnum.378 Weatherby Magnum.416 Weatherby Magnum.460 Weatherby Magnum
The U.S. based Sporting Arms and Ammunition Manufacturers' Institute (SAAMI) has listed a number of known unsafe firearm chamber and cartridge combinations which can happen due to mixing of different common cartridges.
.300 Winchester Magnum, rifle cartridge.300 Remington Ultra Magnum, rifle cartridge.300 Winchester Short Magnum, rifle cartridge.300 Whisper, subsonic rifle cartridge.300 Lapua Magnum, rifle cartridge.300 Savage, rifle cartridge.300 Weatherby Magnum, rifle cartridge.300 Norma Magnum, rifle cartridge.300 H&H Magnum, rifle cartridge
As with other belted magnum cartridges, recoil is significant, due to the high pressures that are characteristic of Weatherby Magnum, though not as heavy as larger-caliber magnums such as the .300 Weatherby Magnum. Care must be taken to confirm what twist rate was used, as the earlier West German 7mm Weatherbys used a 1-in-12 twist vs the ...
Currently A-square is the only other factory ammunition producer of the .340 Weatherby Magnum, which has led to limited popularity of the caliber. In field tests the .340 clearly outperforms the 300 Ultra mag, .338 Win mag. and even rivals the larger .375 H&H, providing a much flatter shooting and harder hitting performance.