Have 2 of them
A Weatherby Mark V that I put into a glass stock
and
a Sako model 995 that they did a limited run of in .340.
The Sako is lighter but the Weatherby shoots just a smidge better. Also the Sako does NOT like heavy bullets whereas the Wby shoots 250gr Sierra loads into clover leafs and the Sierra 300gr MatchKing bullets into one ragged hole.

Both are topped with Shepherd P1 scopes.
Definitely a one gun safari capable.

The Wby is pretty much a if you can see it, you can hit it...hard, ...system.

Lawcop count me in for the 340. I am on my 4th tube. All of mine have been on a M70 and a M700 action-cut without freebore Schneider tubes 4.5 weight. Without a doubt one of the easiest rounds I've ever worked with to get them to shoot sub moa.

I have used the round a bunch for long range shooting of targets/varmints/ and game.

I feel I could easily use it to hunt the world.

"GET TO THE HILL"

Dogz

I'm a fan of the 340 as well. My current rendering of it is on a Remington 700 action, Sako extractor, 26" Ron Smith gain twist barrel, 1.5-6 B&L 4000 scope. When I got the barreled action back I was so anxious to try it, I stuck it a Remington Tupperware stock I had laying about, and proceeded to shoot little bitty cloverleafs at 100 meters. Now I'm afraid to change the stock (and it's SO ugly). Can't argue with what works though. - dan

I've got a Weatherby AccuMark in .340 Weatherby with a Leupold 1.75-6x LPS scope on it. Funny thing is, I've only taken it to the range a couple of times and I've never huunted with it so I don't really have that much experience with it yet. The past couple of years I've been concentrating on other cartridges (.30-06, .338-06, .375 H&H, .416 Rigby and .470 NE). This topic reminds me that I need to take it out and dust it off and work with it some. Too many rifles and never enough time!!

-Bob F.

I like it!

I just rebarrelled a Model 70 338 to 340 with a 26" Pac-Nor and it seems real friendly. While I have only about fifty rounds through it so far and no real load work-up done, I did manage to take a eleven point whitetail buck, a doe and a couple coyotes with it so far.

I have high hopes for it!

Maybe, with deer season over, I'll find time to blue it and do more load work.

Mine is a jap made mark V "alaskan" it's my go to gun.

I don't have one, or really the need for one in my battery of rifles, but think it's the best of the Weatherby's.

i have a brno 602 rebarreled to 340, feeds perfect and i would rather shoot it than my 270.i think it was col.charles askins favourite calibre.there was a professional buffalo shooter, who used one in the n.t australia ,and said it would cut down the biggest bulls at long range ,no problem !

LAWCOP,

Mine is a German Weatherby Mark V Deluxe. I would love to be able to shoot as well as it does. Lawdog

My "serious" rifle is a stainless/synthetic weatherby in 340. Mine will print tiny little groups with both the 225 gr A-frame (for serious work) or the 225 Hornady (for light stuff and fun) with the same POI. If I could only have one rifle this would be it.

The 340 Wby was my first real gun.
I shot everything with it for nearly ten years.

Few cartridges offer a more balanced combination of flat trajectory, great hitting power, acceptable recoil, and accuracy.

The 340 wby is one of the great ones.

Jamie

I have hunted with an old beatup Sporter model .340 Wby for years, taking several Bull Elk, Deer, and a huge Alaska Yukon Moose. It has been to hell and back and it is still a tack driver when I do my part. I also have a Sako model 995 that shoots equaly well. I consider this Weatherby chambering one of the best medium cartridges ever produced, and very servicable for the larger game in North America and plains game in Africa. Good shooting.

Lawcop ----- My load is 88 grains RL-19, Fed 215M primer, and the 225 grain North Fork, or 86 grains of RL-19 and the 240 grain North Fork. I have tried the Swift A-Frame, Nosler Partition, Kodiak, Sierra Gameking bullets, with the North Forks coming out on top in accuracy and penetration with a good mushroom. Good luck and good shooting.