Got a Weatherby Ultra Lightweight in 30-06. It's been beaded and floated with a 2 pound trigger. I bought it used and I'm about ready to break it over the god damn bench! It shoots like crap and I am running out of patients. I THINK it is mechanically sound, i.e. barrel, rifeling, action etc. I have'nt run the full gammit of powders/bullets YET!

Does anyone own this particular weapon that has a load that actually works? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Funny, I actually had a guy at the range tell me one time that reloading was a RELAXING hobby

A shot in the dark here but have your tied 180 Hornday flat base (not the BT) and some IMR 4350? This has always been a wonderful combo for me.

"GET TO THE HILL"

Dogz

I will second that, but I use H4350 in my 2-30-06's.

I had a Weatherby LWT in 300 Weatherby. It was very accurate for the first 3 shots. But after that, the barrel would get so hot that shots would often rise 6 to 8 inches. Pretty thin tube on those rifles. Maybe this is your problem? Try shooting a shot, let it cool, then shoot another.

I had one and experienced the same frustrations. Try 4350 with a Sierra 150 sptz bt. With a Federal 210 m primer. My load was close to max. The 220 grs Hornady RN shot well with RL 19 and the same primer

Hope this helps

Aleko

55gr N140 under a 125gr NBT or speer TNT.

longshot1, I use 50.5 grains of varget with a 168 grain MK with a 210M. Works great in my 06's. I have chronied them at 2860 with good accuracey.

How does it shoot from a rest? In general even a two shot group is enough for a big game rifle. So what's most important is where the first shot goes from a cold barrel. In other words does it stay sighted in?

While the particular load does matter it's things like loose screws, bedding, scopes and bad aiming that can really throw something off.

longshot1,

As a general rule freefloating works well with heavy barrels while lightweight barrels want some stock pressure (not always). My lightweight Weatherby 30-06 followed this rule. I suggest you try some shims between the barrel and forend to apply around 5 lbs upward pressure to the barrel. Use 2 shims placed at the 4-5 and 7-8 o'clock positions, leaving a gap at 6 o'clock. Try some temporary shims at first (the old business card method). If it works, then look toward a more permanent installation (I can help you with that too if you wish). This has cured more than one accuracy problem for me. If you want to just get rid of the rifle, let me know - I might be interested.

Live well

I know don't know if they do this on their standard calibers, but Weatherby runs some really long throats on their proprietary calibers. You may try seating your bullets just off the lands.

even with my standard 30-06 synthetic, I shoot 3 times in 5 minutes and then wait 20 until it cools off. Faster than that and the gun will not group well. I even put it in the shade between groups... This gun likes 150 grain failsafes, 165 grain powerpoints, 150 grain ballistic tips, 165 grain ballistic tips, 180 grain corelocs. It shoots the failsafes and ballistic tips into 1 inch everything else between 1.5 and 2.0, as always from a rest at 100 yds. I did have an 18 inch blue model 7 in 308 where the recoil seemed to keep me from doing my best shooting, it just seemed harder to keep in place, probably just me though......