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pythagorean · October 30, 2010, 06:37 AM

I've always had a flame for the .257 Weatherby since the early 70s. At 52 today I had the chance to get one in the 700 Remington CDL I've posted elsewhere here. I love the 700 and the .257 Weatherby and when they came together recently in a rifle I asked to see at Cabela's I couldn't pass it up.

So I've been thinking about what applications it has (besides varmint, antelope, deer) and have put on a Trijicon 3-9X red illuminated post on it (really one of my favorite telescopic reticles).

Lately (since the Nosler Partitions) the .257 has all kinds of tough bullets that can hold together to really go through something (like elk). The .25 has been, in a couple decades past, viewed as perhaps too light for elk.

But now? What do you think?

October 30, 2010, 06:37 AM	#1
pythagorean Junior member Join Date: January 27, 2008 Posts: 970	.257 Weatherby for Elk? I've always had a flame for the .257 Weatherby since the early 70s. At 52 today I had the chance to get one in the 700 Remington CDL I've posted elsewhere here. I love the 700 and the .257 Weatherby and when they came together recently in a rifle I asked to see at Cabela's I couldn't pass it up. So I've been thinking about what applications it has (besides varmint, antelope, deer) and have put on a Trijicon 3-9X red illuminated post on it (really one of my favorite telescopic reticles). Lately (since the Nosler Partitions) the .257 has all kinds of tough bullets that can hold together to really go through something (like elk). The .25 has been, in a couple decades past, viewed as perhaps too light for elk. But now? What do you think?