[stagpanther]

The long Weatherby freebore is a fascinating feature of Weatherby rifles--seems to almost fly in the face of conventional wisdom of "shortest jump to lands". The theory seems to be it enables a smooth ramp up of peak pressure in an "blown out" cartridge. The short norma bullets don't seem to suffer any from a short COL compared to Weatherby's own ammo (though Norma makes them both). I'm beginning to think I just might get suckered into buying one of these the more I explore them. Their recent 6.5-300 looks mighty interesting though the selection of bullets that can hold together out of it I imagine is limited.