Make sure your action screws are torqued right. As someone that’s been shooting the .257 for over 40 years, here is a tip for ya. She likes to be hot. When your getting over 3500 with the 100gr, your getting to where she likes to be. Also, do yourself a favor. Drive down the interstate and visit Barnes and pick you up some 100gr TTSX. Use em for everything from speed goat to elk without hesitation. Just remember, Roy didn’t design anything to go slow.

Just my opinion. Move your front shooting bag further back closer to the front action screw. You might have to raise the rear bag or rest position up slightly to see the target. With that bag being so close to the end of the stock, I think it’s causing excessive harmonics that are inconsistent. And try to put it back to exactly the same position every time. This may not work for you, but it’s what I would try

This is only the second video I've watched. I did leave a comment earlier about bullet seating. For powder charge this is what I do to find the best SD and EP. Let's say you want to achieve 3,200fps see what your book says will be just below that and up to that. Now pick the lower one say it is XX.00 gr of powder. Load 4 rounds for each group and keep the bullet the same seating depth. Then load the next at XX.2 then .4 then .6 then .8 then XY. Use your chronograph for every shot and record the results. You will find say XX.4 and XX.6 have nearly the same spread and deviation so I would load at XX.5 knowing if I'm up a bit or down a bit the results are the same and most accurate velocities I can get. I then pick that best average charge and seat my bullet where it will feed well in the rifle. Shoot 4 round groups again, load the first where you want to start and then seat the second 4 a distance of .003 back from the first, then next 4 rounds .006 from the first and then next .009 from the first and maybe one more group back another .003. You will then find the groups will open and then close up and open again. The tight group is your seating node. This process worked well on my Weatherby mark v 243 super varmint master and other rifles. I'm going to be working on my 300 Weatherby soon as I get some time and new brass. Also if it is warm out let the barrel cool down between shots, takes longer but you get better results at least that has been my experience.

I’m sure you will find the right load combo. As you know, sometimes it takes quite a bit of tinkering. Thanks and keep us posted.

Nice! I'm looking forward to seeing more! Different bullets, powders, hopefully you find the combination that it likes.

As long as other commenters are doling out advice, here's mine: focus on your follow-through. Keep that trigger pulled until well after the rifle barks. Looks like you're very concerned with getting your finger off the trigger as fast as possible.

I tried both 115 Grain Ballistic Tips and 110 Grain Accubonds and the Accubonds shot a great group with 70.5 grains of 7828ssc. Also shot my first deer with it this year and the terminal performance of the Accubonds on a whitetail was pretty impressive. Good luck finding a load because I’ve had a hard time changing to a different gun this season.

The 257 Weatherby is a wonderful high performance cartridge you are not to shoot too much because of barrel wear. Find a good load and save it for hunting. I hear H1000 powder is good . The 117gr. Sierra has been my benchmark bullet for 25-06. May work in the 257 Weatherby. Clean that barrel and polish it up with JB bore paste.

Try adjusting the seating depth, weatherby free bore is .357” but it can make a difference, also make sure your action screws are tightened to spec. All my 257 weatherby rifles shoot best at very close to max, and the slower powders like h1000, r-22, even retumbo. Good luck..

I worked up a load years ago for my .257 Weatherby's, all MK V's, not a Vanguard, with 100gr Barnes ttsx bullets and IMR 7828ssc powder. Just start with 70grs and work your load up until you reach 3600fps. I think you'll be under 1moa. My rifles and two of my hunting buddies rifles love that load and we've shot antelope, deer, wildebeeste, zebra, heartebeast, impala and more with that load!

The best group I have ever shot was with my .257 Weatherby with 110 grain Nosler Accubond bullets @ 3,450 fps.. I have also enjoyed shooting it at small targets out a tad beyond 1,000 yards with some pretty amazing accuracy.

I shot a buck with my vanguard 257 on monday.I was using 117 sst with about 58 grs of IMR 4350. Nosler book tells me this should be around 3060 at the muzzle, I did not verify that,howerver prior to hunting at the range this load did group excellent out of this gun.I read so many horror stories on the sst blowing up I wanted to be under 3200 to avoid this issue.Monday a nice buck stepped out of some thicket only about 40 yards from me.I took the shot right at his heart.You know I thought I shot a BB gun,I never felt any recoil, I did at the range but again the recoil was very mild. Whenit

120 partitions load magazine length and 69 grains of 7828

Weatherby's like heat, I always load at near max, or max loads. My Vanguard 2 absolutely loves a max load of 75.5gr of H 1000, Barnes 100gr TTSX, 3.160 oal at 3525fps, with the Federal 215 LRM match primers. Be sure to buy a Lee factory crimp die and use it on all loadings. There's a lot of powder that needs to be burned in ANY Weatherby cartridge and this was told to me by a Barnes bullet reloading tech and a Weatherby factory tech. The crimp doesn't have to be 'heavy', maybe about medium works best for me. Of course, start a few grains under max load and work up checking for pressure signs . This load is absolute money in my .257 Wby and will put 3 shots in a dime at 100yds! I also have a reliable load for the 110 gr Hornady ELDX, and the Berger 115gr ELD Hunter bullet, I don't recall the loads for the Berger or Hornady bullets but I could look them up, kind of irrelevant when the put up against the Barnes TTSX. ANY other bullet is what I call a 'dust bullet' when comparing to the integrity of Barnes!!

Weatherby accuracy guarentee for Vanguard rifle using Weatherby factory ammo. 1 MOA or less.

Have you ever done a ladder test to find the a good node? I haven't yet, but a lot of people swear by it.

Someone should bring back the heavy varmint barrels.

Have you tried factory ammo to benchmark against? And I feel your pain, I bought a Howa 1500 and spent nearly $400-500 in different factory loads and was having a difficult time to get anywhere close to MOA with 7mm-08, my Hornady Precision Hunter was 5 moa whereas my Hornady whitetail was about an inch

If anything remove the stock, and see if you can bed the recoil lug. I’m pretty sure that barrel isn’t floated. I would torque the action screws as well. Maybe just pick a good powder, and then just start shooting groups only adjusting the seating depth. Changing only one thing at a time.

Good stuff. I am excited to see how mine does!! What bullet you using for the 30/06?

If you can find some Norma MRP, somewhere between 69 and 72 grains for 100 grain bullets will get you in the 3600 to 3700 fps range. I'm shooting the 120 grain Nosler Partition in mine and am getting sub MOA groups. Of course all guns shoot different.

Does it shoot moa with factory ammo. I just got one. And what optic are you running.

Hey brother I'm happy for the growth that your channels gettin good for you I'm going to get off KZfaq but I've got a great podcast idea I'm starting to put together a few show notes. I've got me a two-way absolutist and my best friend a slightly left-of-centre 14-year army veteran and I'm looking forward to see what I can do with that. Afterall mama always told me I had a face for radio. I've enjoyed some of our brief exchanges. I'm getting ready to build a new rifle or buy one then modify. Once again I'm just overwhelmed with the cartridges that are out there I'm comparing ballistics and I'm just not really sure what it is I'm looking for. I would love to discuss with you your feelings on some of these weatherby cartridges and how you think they respond to you compared to other cartridges

You may want to up the charge,it may not be safe shooting that light of a load

To finish when I shot the buck he did not even flinch,he ran into the laurel and I actually thought it was a complete miss.I followed the buck and there was no blood trail anywhere, I went about fifty yards and saw the buck ahead of me another 30 yards. The bullet did enter and exit the deer where I shot and the insides were a mess, still the deer did not bleed.This was a quick clean kill however I still don't know how to evaluate the whole event. I am going to try interlocks and nosler bt and see what preformance these bullets have. I will say the whole event was alot of fun, cheers.

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It might be just the video, but it appears you might be rushing your shots a little after chambering each round. That might also be affecting your group size.

It appears that you have a barrel heating problem. My 30.06 shoots into a quarter ( 5 shots ) with hunting loads.

I’ve never seen a weatherby that wasn’t a tack driver I bet you find a good load this rifle will shoot… I heard you say your close to Barnes are you from Utah also??

I had the same issues with my groups. What I found with all my weatherby vanguards is bullet seating depth. I have one in 7mm08 another in 257 and another in 6.5-300. All have to be seated a few thousands longer than book. After I started adjusting to a longer seating depth groups shrank to 1” or less.

Green Vanguard?

Two things to consider with both rifles: 1) accurization from a gunsmith or such and 2) Checking the torque specs on your action screws at minimum. The rifles will become more inherently accurate as copper is deposited in the barrel. I'd say give it more rounds, check the torque specs of those action screws and watch the groups shrink. Think about it this way: if everything is out of spec, lets say 2 mm (going by turns of a driver or tolerances) all over the entire gun, that's a lot!! NIB guns from the best manufacturers will have those issues. They shouldn't, but they do!!

Use some h4831 72 grains 100 grain nosler ballistic tips works great in mine getting 3573fps

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5:05 it looks like the pressure has been a little high on the 300wby

If you have low sd start your seating depth testing

I need some brass for the 257 wby and dies then ready to shoot

Your moving or your scope is loose

I agree you bag should be in same place as you hand would be if you were shooting off hand, never seen a wearthby shoot that bad even a vanguard.

Sorry to say this...but I think its you not the rifle. Because I notice you are not holding the butt stock tight against your shoulder, and your front bag is not position right. Or, put a muzzle break on the barrel to help you steady the rifle more....

Check your action screws often on those

I shoot IMR 4831

You need to send a hundred rounds downrange before you even consider load development.

Maybe you should use less powder.

This dude is just a reloader slapping some components together to make a gun go boom!! First video he talks about taking advantage of weatherbys freebore to gain velocity then he loads at factory length well what the hell was he worried about the extra free bore for then!! I would say it’s safe to say he don’t have any idea what the hell he’s talking about. The same video he mentions weatherby lowering pressures with extra head space well this is wrong too headspace is a sammi dimension all manufactures have to follow and excessive head space would cause case head separations so wrong again pal!! Now let’s get into that nasty trigger jerk you got going on in this video. How do you expect to get groups under half inch when your jerking that trigger like it’s your pecker!! I even saw a few shots where he closed his eye before the gun went off have to look close but it’s there!! You have a lot to learn and a long ways to go to become an actual hand loader instead of a reloader slapping shit together there is a huge difference between the two and it’s easy to tell which you are!!