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Who feeds there 340Wby these = 200gn Wby factory ammo?

The projectiles used by Weatherby are Hornady Spire points,which are renowned for there performance/stopping power.
http://www.weatherby.com/products/ammo/hornady.asp
Buying about 60 rounds,so I'll give these a run.Reakon they'll work a treat on everything from mice to moose Wink .

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I've shot alot of game with the 200 gr Hornady in my 338 Mag, and I found that they are NOT for Moose. They are of light construction, so be careful.


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I had a 225gr. Hornady in my .340 fail to penetrate a wounded pig I was trying to finish off for a client. It was a quartering away shot at about 80 yards. The bullet entered just in front of the ham angling forward. The bullet didn't even make it to the lungs. It wasn't a large pig so just 18" of pentration would have taken out the vitals.

Ironically I had a 180gr. Hornady out of a .300 Win. Mag. fail exactly the same way on a similar sized pig on the exact same hill.

On a large boar I was finishing off I had a 400gr. Hornady out of a .416 Rem. fail to exit at only 10 yards. It didn't expand well either... is just flat failed.

I've used Hornady's since I was a kid and have probably taken over 60 animals with them but I'm losing faith quickly. I'm still carrying the 300gr. in my .375 H&H for my guiding but in general I'm steering away from Hornady's.

In fact I have several boxes of the 200gr. Hornady's waiting to be loaded in the .340 and just this morning I was thinking I should just sell them so I'm not dissappointed (or worse yet lose an animal).

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Interesting.
I've seen Winchester factory 200gn Powerpoints(338WM),which are virtually the same sort of projectiles perform great on big pigs & Australia's largest deer(Sambar).

Thought Hornady's spire point were a bit more of a good thing.

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340Wby,
I'm not saying they won't work, I'm just saying I've had too many failures in a short period of time. There are too many good bullets out there for me to risk losing an animal from trying to save a couple cents on each shot.

My .340 groups X bullets more accurately anyway.

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