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Need advice: Browning A-Bolt or Weatherby Mark V

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#1 ·
Hey everybody,

I'm in the market for a new long range hunting rifle chambered in .300 Win Mag. The two I'm torn between are the 25th Anniversary Browning A-Bolt stainless or the Weatherby Mark V Accumark. Does anyone have any experience with these 2 rifles? Need any advice on accuracy, quality, etc.

Thanks in advance,
Ace
 
#30 ·
I my opinion, the Weatherby is the finest engineered and built NON- CUSTOM rifle being built today, ....the action is patented for a reason

if you can afford one, buy it, you won't be disappointed.

and I don't understand why your rifle won't shoot under moa there eclipse, every other Weatherby I've ever heard tell about would shoot one hole groups with the right load.....

mayhap it ain't the rifle.....
 
#31 ·
I own the Wetherby Mark V in both the 340wby. and 257wby. and they are accurate, smooth and beautiful. BUT IMO I can not say they are any more accurate then my Brownings A-Bolt's. I will say when the weather turns wet I have cut my hunts short to get my $2000+ rifles out of the rain !!! One more thing is the ammo, the Weatherby is more expensive and harder to find in most places. In my opinion I would go with the Brownings.
 
#34 ·
I own the Wetherby Mark V in both the 340wby. and 257wby. and they are accurate, smooth and beautiful. BUT IMO I can not say they are any more accurate then my Brownings A-Bolt's. I will say when the weather turns wet I have cut my hunts short to get my $2000+ rifles out of the rain !!! One more thing is the ammo, the Weatherby is more expensive and harder to find in most places. In my opinion I would go with the Brownings.
As a youngster in the 1950s, a cousin and I would drool over the beautiful wood stocked Mark Vs in the catalogs and figure we could never afford the $300+ they were selling for. But, when I finally could afford them, I bought Mark V Accumarks with stainless metal and polymer stocks so I could hunt with them in the rain and snow.

Weatherby factory ammo is much more expensive then more common non-proprietary cartridges, but it can occasionally be bought at a large discount (up to half price) in the off season or when a gun store closes, so one needs to plan ahead. Although I have reloading dies for the .257 Wea and .340 Wea, I have never reloaded these cartridges. When the dealer from whom I bought my rifles decided to close shop and move to another state, he made me a good offer on his ammunition inventory. I've also found good deals at a large store that was changing its focus.

When opportunities like these occur, consider buying the store's inventory of the cartridge. The value of the ammunition does not depreciate as does the money you would use to buy it . Of course I use more common cartridges (.270 Win and .30-06 - both of which I reload) for routine practice rather than deplete my more valuable Weatherby ammo.
 
#35 ·
Hey Irv, this is unsolicited but if you ever want to get rid of any .257 WBY brass let me know. I don't shoot mine a lot but a few boxes of empties would be good to have around.

FWIW
 
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