Harry Bibb
300 Weatherby
Tuesday, April 17, 2018, 18:36

I bought mine in 1972 in PA.
In 1974 I take a job in Santa Barbara, CA. We worked on the LA County Fire Communications system so we rented a house in LA to be comfortable.

I spent my spare time going to gunshops in the area with the Weatherby Factory being one of them. You could buy a box of fired brass for $2 a box. The test range was in the basement and all the brass came from testing the rifles. I am sorry I didn't buy a box of all their calibers. I later bought a 240 barreled action.

I think the Weatherby's use a pressure point since I glass bedded both of mine. My 300 likes the Winchester 150 grain silver tip and gets 1/2 to 3/4 inch groups at 100 yards. On whitetails, the 300 picks them up and they are dead before they hit the ground. It is too much on whitetails so I use the 243.

Sierra also sold bullets by the pound which were bullets they ran through the machine to lap the dies. Great times and lots of trap and skeet shooting at the LA Center.