Kind of stumped about the bees radius shoulder and running the sizer die. Kicking the idea of rechambering one of my .375HH to the bee is why I'm asking. Curious why many negative comments are made against the bees radius. Doesn't the die for the Weatherby size brass properly? Help me on this..

Weatherby dies (re)size the brass just fine.

I think the only comment about the Weatherby radius shoulder is that it is trickery; meaning it doesn't really add anything to the cartridge except sex appeal.

I think that's probably true, but my R8 in 300 Weatherby does a heck of a job at the bench and on critters and I don't much care whether people like a radius'ed shoulder or not!

Sizing is certainly not an issue. The shoulder is cool and does feed well. They have nice long necks and other than the 257 and 30-378 are perfectly over-bored. In fact the 270 and 300 are in my opinion the 2 best cartridges for non-dangerous game ever to come down the pike.

Grizz007,

I have a 375 WBY and the brass works perfectly. Just don't push the shoulder back when resizing and the brass will last a long time. Also you have a fantastic one rifle does all caliber. Re-chamber and have fun.

Mark

I like what I gathered fellas. Heck of time mulling this rechamber idea for the last couple weeks. Do I mess with a perfectly functioning Interarms Whitworth? It's not my only .375, so cool! Appreciate you who have one and spoke up. Many thanks!

I have found that the shoulder resists sizing compared to a traditional angled shoulder, but the dies cope with this no problem.

On a side note, the 375 Weatherby is a tremendous step-up from the H&H, a genuine 200+fps gain with most popular bullet weights.

I find mine to give high velocity with less powder than 2 other rifles I have used. It's even is faster than the 375 RUM.

I think your choice is a great one.

Cheers.

I have 375, 300, 7mm, 270, and 257 WBY brass. It is tough stuff indeed.

One life hack.

There is a fellow, www.larrywillis.com that sells a die that removes the bulge from in front of belted magnum brass. You can get up to twenty reloads of that expensive brass if you also anneal it every four reloading cycles.

I've had that die for probably 10 years and have never had to use it. From my point of view, it's a solution to a nonexistent problem.

Lent mine to a neighbor at the air park across the street.

He had a lot of 7mm Rem Mag brass that wouldn't chamber. That die salvaged over 60 pieces out of 100. Saved him $50.00 right there.

I suspect you are a little more responsible about how much powder goes into your loads.

Do you want to sell your die?

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Originally posted by grizz007:
Kind of stumped about the bees radius shoulder and running the sizer die. Kicking the idea of rechambering one of my .375HH to the bee is why I'm asking. Curious why many negative comments are made against the bees radius. Doesn't the die for the Weatherby size brass properly? Help me on this..

Not sure why some have the idea that Wby dies have an issue. I have Wby caliber rifles in 240,257,270 7mm,300,340 and 375 Wby. There has been times when brass has been hard to find in my neck of the woods. I've formed 240 cases from 06 brass. When forming the shoulder does NOT come out perfect but if you size only enough to close the bolt with some resistance they fireform perfectly. Most of my 257 Wby cases are formed from 264 cases and many of my 340 cases are formed 375 H&H. All of my 375 Wby brass is fireformed H&H brass.

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Originally posted by Grumulkin:
I've had that die for probably 10 years and have never had to use it. From my point of view, it's a solution to a nonexistent problem.

It's sort of like small base dies. Nobody needs either one until they need them, and many are convinced nobody does. Your turn may never come, or it might be your next rifle. Or maybe you find the mother lode of free brass that you can't use.

I think it's more of a specialty tool than anything; I didn't get mine until
I had a pile of Weatherby brass I couldn't use. It paid for itself the first hour.

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Originally posted by Dogleg:

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Originally posted by Grumulkin:
I've had that die for probably 10 years and have never had to use it. From my point of view, it's a solution to a nonexistent problem.

It's sort of like small base dies. Nobody needs either one until they need them, and many are convinced nobody does. Your turn may never come, or it might be your next rifle. Or maybe you find the mother lode of free brass that you can't use.

I think it's more of a specialty tool than anything; I didn't get mine until
I had a pile of Weatherby brass I couldn't use. It paid for itself the first hour.

I believe you. That's why I haven't sold the die. The day may come.

And I never needed a small base die until that certain rifle.

Got to put a small base die to good use yesterday. 260 once fired .257 Weatherby cases came in the mail. FL sizing got them into my rifle, but with much more effort than wanted on the bolt handle. I don't even know if anyone makes a SB in that caliber, but a SB .300 Win with the de-capping rod removed, a SB .300 bushing die with no expander or a .300 SB body die will work and not get near the shoulder. I used the last one,then the Willis tool on a few stubborn ones.

One of these days I'll cut the top half off of a magnum SB die so
It will work on the H&H length cases as well. In the meantime the Willis tool takes care of those
few.

I have found the Willis tool especially useful on the 7mm Rem Mag and 300 Win Mag. I think people get a little heavy handed on the powder scoop with those two calibers. Even more of a problem is oversized factory chambers. I estimate that my tool has paid for itself at least five times over. I have measured the distance to the shoulder on unfired factory ammunition, and remeasured it after friends fired it in their Ruger, Remington, or what have you. The brass will often grow between 0.017" to o.29" at the shoulder. Warner tool chambers 300 Winchester Magnum competition barrels with their "competition" reamer the chamber is 0.015" short, at the shoulder.

The point of that shaggy dog story is that since Weatherby makes the rifles, and the brass, there is much less of a discrepancy between the two. During our courtship, I took my practice wife to the range one day. I got out some 300 Weatherby ammunition I had loaded. As I shot a ladder test, she was handing me the rounds. As soon as I was done, she insisted that we drive right home, so I did. Evidently guys are not the only ones who find Weatherby ammunition and brass "sexy."