NZ guides would watch as shot after shot went down range at the nimble Thar and Chamois, the hit rate was low, gut shots were common. In the South Island of New Zealand, shots would have to be taken at 300-400 yards, a challenge in the days before high power optics, range finders and drop charts. 300 Weatherby, another potential bullet blow up, a failed or slow kill resulting in hours of tracking and hard labor. In Africa, guides shuddered at yet another client toting a. Unfortunately, in many instances, the factors of bullet construction and precise shot placement were abandoned in favor of fantastical reasoning. 300 Weatherby have over the years made strongly convincing statements of this cartridges ability to cause such wounding that animals may be “blown in half” and that accordingly, shot placement when using the Weatherby is of low priority. In earlier years the Weatherby was promoted as being able to flatten anything that walked via sheer velocity. This cartridge has however always suffered one major limitation - unrealistic expectations. 300 Weatherby Magnum is a truly powerful, highly effective medium game cartridge. 300 Weatherby was 50 years ahead of its time as it has only been recently that suitable optics and range finders for long range hunting have been available to the public at affordable prices. Today, the Weatherby remains popular as a medium game hunting cartridge but has come into its own as a long range hunting cartridge, utilized in both factory and custom rifles. 300 Winchester Magnum became a major worldwide success, it took only a small share of Weatherby’s market, each style of rifle and cartridge appealing to different customers. The Winchester cartridge and rifles appealed to more reserved hunters, the Weatherby to those that favored extreme velocities. The Winchester offering had two major advantages, inexpensive factory ammunition along with plainer, more utilitarian rifles as opposed to the Weatherby rifles which at this time, were often considered somewhat garish in appearance by many shooters. 300 Winchester magnum as competition to the Weatherby cartridge. 300 Weatherby became the most popular cartridge of the Weatherby line and historically, is responsible for initiating the general trend towards ultra velocity cartridges. 300 H&H, enabling head spacing at the shoulder, Weatherby retained the belt at the case head, resulting in a very successful marketing ploy. Although the case design of the Weatherby was entirely different from the.
300 Weatherby Magnum was introduced by Roy Weatherby in 1944. 300 H&H case blown out to maximum capacity, the.
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