does anyone have any real world experience with this round for big game hunting? Velocities? loads?

thanks

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7mm-300 weatherby?

AKA 7mm STW?

Why would anyone make a 7mm-.300WBY when the 7mm STW is standard?

Hunting experience?....yes....I had the STW and found it worked exactly like the 7mm Rem Mag....

I sold it but sure wish I had that M-70 CRF back....it'd ba a .375 H*H now!

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Originally posted by vapodog:

Why would anyone make a 7mm-.300WBY when the 7mm STW is standard?

I had the STW and found it worked exactly like the 7mm Rem Mag....

+1 on that!

Too similar to the 7mm STW to really warrant building one. Now if you already had it (understandable seeing as the STW was a wild cat just a few short years ago too) then reloadersnest.com has loads, you could probably top the STW by a bit due to a slightly larger capacity, and higher loading pressure IF you have the Weatherby free boore. Big if.

The 7mm-.300 bee was at one time the hot 1,000 yard cartridge and still may be for all I know. However, a big 7 like the STW, RUM, 7/300 Weatherby is as fine a huntin rig as there is on earth. A 140 gr bullet at a sizling 3500 fps and minimum felt recoil is a thing of beauty (TOB). Warren Page was right.

BTW, a big plus for the 7mm-.300 Weatherby is the high quality 300 brass available from Norma for Weatherby.

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Originally posted by Buliwyf:
The 7mm-.300 bee was at one time the hot 1,000 yard cartridge and still may be for all I know. However, a big 7 like the STW, RUM, 7/300 Weatherby is as fine a huntin rig as there is on earth. A 140 gr bullet at a sizling 3500 fps and minimum felt recoil is a thing of beauty (TOB). Warren Page was right.

thanks for a detailed reply.