Re: Anyone mess with .300wsm ?
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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One of the things that I noticed when reloading for it was that you need to set your sizing die while resizing them. I needed to have the shell plate touching the die when sizing the cases. If not it was hard to close the bolt and extraction was difficult, even on starting loads. Another is that they like 180 SBT tips. This was with two rifles. The ballistics show it has some good potential.
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Re: Anyone mess with .300wsm ?
[Re: Jerry Jr.]
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One of the things that I noticed when reloading for it was that you need to set your sizing die while resizing them. I needed to have the shell plate touching the die when sizing the cases. If not it was hard to close the bolt and extraction was difficult, even on starting loads. Another is that they like 180 SBT tips. This was with two rifles. The ballistics show it has some good potential. If you don't mind me asking how much where you bumping your shoulder back ?
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Re: Anyone mess with .300wsm ?
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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11/23/22 10:51 PM
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I have a 300 wsm I bought when they first came out. Mine is a mod 70 Win. Put a Jewell trigger in it. Went on two elk hunts and killed a large Montana whitetail. Too much gun for NC. Hasn’t seen daylight in over ten years.
Got a fortune in the scope and Jewell trigger, plus gunsmith fees. My 7 Rem Mag doesn’t come out to play either. Neither did my heavy barrel 280AI that I eventually sold.
Mostly hunt with 25-06, 7mm-08, 270, and occasionally a 280 Mountain and a 308 Model 7. No more magnums for me. Considering a 22-250. Had four shoulder surgeries. I am a wussy now at 76.
Do you have a specific question regarding the round? I loaded 180 for elk and 150 for deer.
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Re: Anyone mess with .300wsm ?
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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11/24/22 01:27 AM
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They work well, fairly popular out west, short action for a shorter bolt throw, but you usually sacrifice one round in the magazine for that short action. The hype with the short mags when they came out was that they were inherently more accurate than the regular long action magnums, more efficient, and less recoil. More efficient maybe, but I don't really buy the other two. Too much depends on other factors for that, and I believe they were often enough chambered in newer guns that were designed for better accuracy and less felt recoil than some of the older magnum rifles, but I've shot some short mags that kicked like a mule, and others that didn't hardly kick at all.
I'd look at loading 180s in it, if it has room in the magazine for longer OAL and the twist to stabilize them you can play with some of the long, heavy, low drag bullets designed for long range. I know a few guys that shoot 210 Bergers in them with great results, but not all guns will stabilize them, and some of them guys can only load one in the chamber and one in the magazine because they are too long to fit down in the magazine.
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Re: Anyone mess with .300wsm ?
[Re: Wolfdog91]
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11/24/22 05:23 AM
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Reloading for another person is a liability issue. If his gun blows up, he's comin for you. Don't do it.
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Re: Anyone mess with .300wsm ?
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11/24/22 08:54 AM
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Had and still have my 300WSM accurate hard hitting and will do anything a 300 mag will do .
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Re: Anyone mess with .300wsm ?
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I have a 300 wsm I bought when they first came out. Mine is a mod 70 Win. Put a Jewell trigger in it. Went on two elk hunts and killed a large Montana whitetail. Too much gun for NC. Hasn’t seen daylight in over ten years.
Got a fortune in the scope and Jewell trigger, plus gunsmith fees. My 7 Rem Mag doesn’t come out to play either. Neither did my heavy barrel 280AI that I eventually sold.
Mostly hunt with 25-06, 7mm-08, 270, and occasionally a 280 Mountain and a 308 Model 7. No more magnums for me. Considering a 22-250. Had four shoulder surgeries. I am a wussy now at 76.
Do you have a specific question regarding the round? I loaded 180 for elk and 150 for deer. Nothing specific really past mabye a favorite powder but other then that just wanted to see what everyone whose messed with them thought about them and just perticular quirks they may have found
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Re: Anyone mess with .300wsm ?
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11/24/22 01:46 PM
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I have a 300 wsm I bought when they first came out. Mine is a mod 70 Win. Put a Jewell trigger in it. Went on two elk hunts and killed a large Montana whitetail. Too much gun for NC. Hasn’t seen daylight in over ten years.
Got a fortune in the scope and Jewell trigger, plus gunsmith fees. My 7 Rem Mag doesn’t come out to play either. Neither did my heavy barrel 280AI that I eventually sold.
Mostly hunt with 25-06, 7mm-08, 270, and occasionally a 280 Mountain and a 308 Model 7. No more magnums for me. Considering a 22-250. Had four shoulder surgeries. I am a wussy now at 76.
Do you have a specific question regarding the round? I loaded 180 for elk and 150 for deer. Nothing specific really past mabye a favorite powder but other then that just wanted to see what everyone whose messed with them thought about them and just perticular quirks they may have found H4831SC and IMR7828SSC are two you should look at. The 4831SC being the preferred of those two
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