240 WBY Mag Shooters ?

Stillwater165

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Just curious if anybody out there has any experience with the 240 on deer or antelope ? How hot to load it , maybe some favorite loads or bullets ? I owned one once for about a month , Cabelas in Salt Lake offered me more money then I paid for it so they bought it. Kinda regret selling it now and I'm thinking about another one.
 
I loaded for one for a buddy years ago and he killed a dump truck full of deer with it. There's been too much water under the bridge for me to remember the powder but the bullet was a Partition (95 spitzer, I think).

Do you presently have one or just reminiscing about your old one?

Have fun!

Zeke
 
Thinking about buying another one , I only had a chance to hunt paper with my old one. I'm just the type that likes something different. It's the Creedmoor craze around here right now and and I'm not into it , I like the older stuff better.
 
Just got one at an auction. The barrel was not marked so the rifle only brought $165. I poured a chamber cast and was pleasantly surprised to find it is a 240 Weatherby. I had a set of dies stashed way and just got two boxes of brass off of Gunbroker. Now I just need a bit of time to load up some test rounds and run it out to the range. I hope it shots like I think it will.
 
I shot a Antelope with a 240 Weatherby back in 1992 the year before they changed the draw system. I used Weatherby factory ammo.Heres a picture of the boxes. I think they are classics. ?
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. But in never reload for the hunt. I only hunted with it that one hunt. It was really fun and a flat shooter. It's a beautiful mark V Weatherby wood stocked rifle. But it now just sits in the gun safe. I mainly hunt bigger game and need a little more bullet. But I love the gun. Just don't have much use for it. And I never sell guns. Just collect them.
 
Definitely a neat old round ! Those old boxes are pretty neat also , I have a small collection of them just not that one.
 
Mine's a weatherby mark v ultra light, I think it's the cat's butt for deer, sheep and goats. I'm loading 100 grain partitions at just over 3400 fps, spooky flat out to 450 or so. Even used it on a middlin size barbary ram this year, worked great though I would probably use a bigger round for those guys, also shot several barbary ewes with it no problem.Fun round to play with, basically anywhere a 25-06 is handy there also the 240 wby.
 

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